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The title of the message today, and I'll just put it up here for
us. So we all get ready for the
structures as well. Rise up.
Somebody say rise up. Yeah, rise up.
Because life has got a way of knocking us down.
Life has got a way of knocking us down.
And sometimes it just feels like that.
You have been get never. I didn't say to from every
angle, every direction. Now, sometimes, yes, it is a
spiritual battle. Sometimes it's just stepping on
Lego barefoot in the dark. OK, so whether it's been a hard
season, whether it's been a hard week or month, whether it's just
been a hard morning, the bottom line is you don't have to stay
down because car has got to come back for you with your name.
That's only somebody should come back.
Come back. Hallelujah.
Now I'm here to tell you this morning that this is your moment
to rise up. This is your rise up moment.
Come to church. It's time to rise up.
Somebody shall rise up. You've got some place, hide the
heat up and dispose. Now for paints, we're going to
go out into the word of blue. And so we're going to go to a
stretcher this morning in the book of Acts chapter 14.
That is where we will find our proof text for the day, Acts
chapter 14. Now let me just give you the
context as chapter 14. Paul is preaching the gospel in
Lystra, and all of a sudden as he's preaching, he numbs to
somebody and when he notices this person.
This person has been crippled since birth.
OK so as lame paralysed that waltz a day in his life and this
lame person Paul doesn't whisper.
The Bible says Paul spoke with a loud.
Voice Hallelujah for loud voices right as well with a loud voice
with authority with baldness, with faith and yes Paul the
apostle and he says this in the book of Acts 14 verses 9 said
with a loud voice stand up straight on your feet and he.
Lit and he walked Hallelujah. Please God.
I feel the anointing of God on that God is not just a verb.
That is a word for somebody here today.
The Lord is saying it's time to rise up.
It's time to get back onto your feet and to walk into everything
that a God has ready installed for you.
Somebody shout Hallelujah did not surprising those plants.
Let's just vote together. Father, we thank you for your
word. Now, Lord, speak through me.
Lord, I pray call for dry bones to rise again.
Holy Spirit, breed on every heart in this place.
Holy Spirit, come, let resurrection powerful this place
pour out your glory and let the rising begin in the mighty name
of Jesus Christ. Read Christ.
Somebody showed Hallelujah again.
That's chapter 14. Very powerful scripture and
chapter in the word of God just right after that miracle.
I mean, that's not where the story stops.
That's the introduction. Now I want to take you into the
next space. Space to are.
You ready to go a little deeper? Yeah.
OK. So the next space right off of
this miracle, the same people that were amazed by this
miracle, by a possible pull, they turned against Paul and
they grabbed him. They stoned him, dragged him
outside the city, left him for the like, just with this.
Now watch this because this is where it shuts.
This is powerful. I pray you get this word to that
verse 19. They stoned Paul, dragged him
out the sitting, supposing him to be thick.
Now some of you know what that feels like.
Some of you know what it feels like to be knocked down by life.
You know what it feels like when the words hitch it?
The slum of the gossip. Hitch it.
Like sharp stones cutting like stones.
Like being stoned. The the worse.
The hateful worst. Some of you know what that feels
like. They stoned it.
Cut. And, and I just know what it
feels like to be rejected by people, to be dragged by
betrayal, to be written off by people.
Some of you know what it feels like to be written off by
people. And they thought that you're
finished, that it's, it's over. But now listen.
Watch what happens in this powerful verse, chapter 20,
where it shipped. However, when the disciples
gathered around him, he rose up. Somebody shout, revise us, OK,
and be waiting to the city. Listen, we see this principle
throughout the Bible rising up, OK?
It's right there. And we see the same thing
happening over again. Only this time it's not a lame
person. You've got a crippled man that's
rising up. You've got a crippled lay person
that's getting up. This time it's the Apostle Paul
that's. Getting up, my God.
I love that when God showed this show, I'm like, my goodness, in
the one moment we see the lay person getting up, in the next
moment we see Paul engaging. And listen, notice Paul did not
stay down, OK? He got up.
He shook off the dirt, shook off the dust.
He got up and this is amazing. He went straight back to the
same place where they tried to the street.
My God, I mean, come on, somebody.
That's what I call a comeback. That's a comeback.
Come back. Somebody should come back.
Yeah, I would. Hallelujah.
That's what it looks like when you and I've got to come back
powering you. You've got to pounce back.
All right? That positive ball is bouncing
back in this bouncing player. It's bouncing back.
You've got to pulse back. Power on the inside of you.
Hallelujah, somebody. But I don't know who I gave you
for today, but you might have been knocked down.
Yeah. OK, knocked down by a live and
maybe you might have been hit harder.
Than what you've expected. But hear me today.
This is not the end of your story.
This is the beginning of your comeback.
Oh my rap. Come back.
Listen. God is calling you to rise.
God is pulling you to rise. Rise up out of the pits of
depression. Rise up out of fear.
Rise up out of guilt and shine and regret.
Rise up because the same. Spirit, now watch this.
The same spirit that throws Jesus from the grey Come on,
that's a power is on the side of you.
Yes, he's saying you. That's a power and rank Jesus
from the ground. First sign electricity called
this point, then it's hard. You Hallelujah, Romans 8 But if
the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the closet, that same
spirit, he will also raise you up and we, he will raise us up.
Church Hallelujah, blood is not forgotten about you.
It's not the burden about your men.
He's ready to raise you up again.
I don't care how many times we've been knocked out.
Is ready to rise us up again and again and again.
Hallelujah, man. That's a comeback.
That's clowns back power.
That's bounce back. Imagine this vision of this
bouncing basketball. The harder you browse, the
harder the enemy tried to smash it.
The higher it's going to be the bounce back.
The harder you found, the higher you're going to get back up.
A thing. Oh my God, some of them cannot
kiss you. This voice, that's the
resurrection power. We see that in the word of God.
That same spirit, like Jesus, will also rise us up.
That's resurrection power. If we blast this, a power of God
that's on the inside of us. Somebody shout resurrection
power, resurrection. Now let me tell you about Tyson
Fury. BS and I.
Stood on top of the world heavyweight boxer of the top end
of the world. But behind the fame and the
lights and the city was falling apart.
He was losing his way. He lost himself mental health,
depression, anxiety, addiction in darkness.
And he thought about ending it all.
And on the lowest moment of his life, Tyson Fury cried out to
God. God, if you are real, Jesus,
help me. Oh Hallelujah.
God intervene. God touching, God restoring.
But he's like he got signed the ball against honey somebody and
then spend that moment that tried to find his boxing career.
Oh yes, he's fight against 10K Wilder and yes, Wilder in the
12th round. You know what I'm talking about
in the 12th round, this is what happened.
Tyson got the massive big a massive blow in the 12th round.
Such a massive shot. Such a massive hit that he was
not dark. And there is Tyson Fury, not
done lying fat on his back. And the crowds, they just
thought this is over and the Reef restarted the countdown 123
Tyson Fury is. Got the cows everybody for his
over. It's finished everybody and this
referee Scaldy 2345 and the stadium held is great and just
when everybody thought that he's finished and he's lights out and
that he's completely all of a sudden when the referee said
nice. Tyson Fury, Rosa.
Someone shot Rosa. Why can't you get Rider Rosa?
That's. And listen, he got just getting
absolutely shaky. Be shot like a man with a racer
full with the resurrection power.
He shut up, come on somebody. He shut up, new brothers up.
And he came back stronger than before.
He finished the fight now fast come back, come on, somebody
shot come back. That is what I call a comeback.
I bounce back power bouncing back when they don't think it's
just not you that listen, you are not knocked out.
He is not just the champion in the rig.
You know, Tyson Fury, he's standing boldly today.
He decreased the world that there's only one true king.
And. His name is Jesus Christ.
Somebody shall Hallelujah. He started ball for the gospel.
Jesus Christ. He's not a shame of the dust of
Jesus Christ. Only one king by Jesus.
So let me talk to somebody here today.
You might have been knocked down.
You might feel that you have lost.
Listen, the good news is you have not lost the fight.
You might have been knocked down by life.
You might have been knocked out. If you but you are not lost.
You've not lost the fight. You might have been knocked
down, but you've not been knocked out.
Come on. I want you to show you
different. I want you to see the
difference. You might have taken some shots
in life, knocked down, but you're not knocked out.
You're not out of the fight. You're not out of the gang.
You're not out of the cover. Somebody OK?
Listen, Daddy say get ready for your comeback, OK?
You might have been knocked down, but not not out.
You're you are. Listen, like Tyson.
You are rising again, man. Again and again.
You're rising again. Somebody shout out Hallelujah.
Now let me give you. Another sculpture I will.
Just a moment. My God, seven days it says this.
There's the road 12 if you want to lease us.
That is absolutely incredible. I've watched it last night.
Just the shortcut. It is awful how he.
Shot. Right back up resurrection and
pay they all finish the fight. Come on somebody Jesus is the
only come out. You've got somebody to this
help. You've got surprise you did come
on yes, they did not complicate once in together.
There's once in there. Are you creating wisdom?
We are getting up to her. My God, Jesus is down to what
now? Micah 7 Do not rejoice over me,
my enemy. When I fall, I will arise.
Micah did not say if I fall, he said.
When I fall, Come on, Sahari. Not if I when I.
Let's just be real honest in this room, OK?
Falling is part of life. Sometimes it's part of life.
It's OK. There's going to be moments in
your life with you trip up. Let's just be real and very
honest in this place today. There's going to be moments
you're going to hit some bumps in the road.
It's just going to knock you down, OK?
But listen, falling is not the problem.
Fully is not the problem. Staying down, oh God has been
like itching this grace. Come on.
Yeah. Yeah.
This is the word I've got. You know, just because life
knocked you down, that doesn't mean you had lost your fight.
It doesn't mean you are up. Listen, I might be on the floor,
but listen, I'm not out of the fight.
I might have been knocked down maybe, but I've not.
I don't before. I'm not.
Listen, I'm getting up. I'm getting back up.
Hallelujah. Because even though you may be
not down in the natural, there is something supernatural.
That is arising. In you.
Come on, it's advanced back home.
It's 'cause it's a spirit for. Combat resurrection power.
Somebody showed resurrection power.
So you carry the same spirits that pull Jesus from the dead.
That same spirit is saying to you, rise up.
This is your moment. The failure is not your final
chapter. You have not been knocked out.
This is your bounce back moments.
This is your comeback moment. This is your rise up moment.
Somebody shot Hallelujah. Come on, somebody say that this
is my rise up moments. Yeah, yeah.
Come on. This is it.
Get ready, because listen, this
is what we do. Listen, your next round.
Oh, my God. I feel like prophecy here right
now. Your next round is going to be
your best round. Come on, Somebody's getting this
today. Yeah, Now you do.
Yeah, because you're that's now it's going to be your best now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, let's get some payments
in this. Place Now let's read this
powerful scripture in Second Corinthians.
We are hard pressed on every side.
OK, that's life. OK?
Let's just be honest, OK? Not in this side of heaven, this
on this planet. As long as we, yeah, we live in
a fallen world. OK?
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.
Perplexed, but not in the spirit.
Persecuted, but not about struck.
Down OK come on somebody back not she's a guy might have been
not done. But not, not done.
I want you to get that in your spirit today.
OK, now let me tell you something real playing here
today. You are not built to stay down.
OK, yeah, this and that and I just cutting you right planet,
you are not. Shaped to stay stuck, OK.
You have been designed to rise, OK?
You have been full. You've been filled with the fire
of the Holy Ghost, OK, somebody. So on the inside of you is
something very powerful. Listen.
How is afraid of that? Of that powerful resurrection
power? Listen, the hell cannot handle
that, OK? And that's why, let's say it's
been so intense. That's why the pressure has been
so heavy. And sometimes the warfare feels
so personal. OK?
Because the devil is afraid of where you're going.
Yeah, he's afraid of he's terrified of where you are
going. Because listen, the devil, he
caught the glimpse of your future.
And what's happened is the the the enemy.
He saw the calling on your life. He saw the man saw that you
carry, he saw the oil that is on your flight and So what the
enemies try to shut you down before stepping into us.
OK, because he's afraid. Now here is what the enemy
didn't know you have got bounce back power to you, but under
devil that's something that you didn't know that about you.
OK that you have got compact, you've got to come back power,
OK, you've got comeback capacity.
So you were pulled to recover. That's what the enemy going to
and so you've been Christ to rise again.
Hallelujah somebody. I love the way the call said it.
He said listen, we are praise on every side, but we are not
crushed. We listen, the ball says it's
like, listen, we've been knocked down, but we are not destroying
cover somebody. I love the way city then that is
the kind of boat that stands to stop.
I may be down, I may have been, but listen, I'm not staying
down. I've got resurrection power
living on inside of me and we just not.
I love that song. It's so powerful now.
Let's go a little deeper. What's this in proverbs?
Are you ready? Church it says here verse 16 for
though the righteous fall savor and thoughts they.
Like this principle is awful of the Bible.
It's so powerful principle we see again, fooling is not the
problem. Fooling is not pleased.
Falling doesn't make you failure.
Stay in down bus Amen. OK, righteous.
OK to be You are not righteous because you're a perfect person.
You're righteous. Because you keep on getting back
up again, OK? Listen you Mayor Porter was
twice three times the Bible says 7 times the righteous rise again
that was saving is symbolic is a word for completion completion
somebody OK, so the Bible says listen secret time.
So 7 is mini completion. So that means God's Christ
doesn't run out. This mercy doesn't get tired.
The Bible says the fact is mercy every new every morning.
I like. I woke up this morning.
I don't really care what happened yesterday.
Today is a new day. Today, this first blood, this
grace. Mercy.
This grace is so gives birth. This grace today.
I don't know. Somebody listen, God's not
counting you out. He's counting you.
I made somebody. Can you send me?
You have been through the flood, but the waters did not drown
you. You came through the storm, but
the storm did not stop you. OK.
Why? Because what's inside of you?
Come on, get this revelation now.
Fright to the sea are you see you then he thank you my
daughters. We said no instructors right now
this sitcom like there is another city, he said wake up
every morning. What's this regulation our ears?
Like he shut up out of bed is a lot of bed is in the Sydney, but
he that is in the world, yeah, that is a residential power that
he can't make. Try the day Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is this is Josh. You wake up this morning, he
says a trapping there's another comment on the inside of you.
This is a rich and power that's right for your bloods throwing
for your DNA. This is a rich and power that is
a revelation. We walk around where greater as
you don't see us now. OK, so it might feel that you
have dropped the ball either a brand to either a mean to OK,
but listen somewhere along the line it just happened, OK, and
you just slip and you drop the ball OK now.
You mishandled what God has placed in your hands.
OK, but I've got good news for you today, chess.
If you feel like you dropped the ball, if you feel like you've
made a mistake, listen, you are not alone.
Let's just be honest and really checked.
You are not the only one that's dropped the ball.
You're not the only. One that's by the mistake the
Bible says we've all sent. So come on, stop pointing
fingers there front and say to stop it.
OK, we've all sent every single person on this planet.
We've all fallen, we've all made mistakes.
OK, so you're not alone. Even one of the highest leaders
in the church, God that was leading us, Moses dropped the
ball. Now I want to show this to you
because this is very powerful. Moses did the same thing in this
God gave him 3 tablets of stone. I mean that was just, I mean
these amazing stone tablets written by the very finger of
God. Kill Heben on stone.
Think about that, yeah. OK.
Is we'll just, you know, just talk about stone.
We are talking about sacred. This is sacred that God gave in.
OK, listen and God goes listen. This is sacred stone for the
heavenly print on this. Take this to my people.
And yet those Moses and Moses would come down the mountain of
Dory, and what did he walk into? Chaos, confusion, compromise.
The very same people of God that came through the Red Sea milling
ball of worshipping an idol dancing around in a calf golden
puff. And Moses snat out of
frustration and he flew it down and he shattered and broke all
of it. He shattered.
What was I breath it? Was completely shampoo.
What was sacred? And so it wasn't because he
didn't know God, it was because of the pressure of the people
that live in compromise, rebellion, disobedience.
And he got his stration, got the better of it.
Well, let's be honest. How many of us have been there?
Come on, let's be honest, OK? We.
Smashed. What was the sacred?
Which smash these this up not because we didn't care, but
because of the pressure around us.
Yeah, Yeah. The pressure that's been going
on, OK, Now sometimes, and this is very important because the
biggest go to your calling can because of the compromise of
somebody else, yeah. One of the biggest because of
the disobedience, the rebellion. The wrong choices of somebody
else they disobedience drank you and before you realize that
you've dropped the ball you've dropped what was sacred.
You have dropped. Maybe you've dropped a dream
that God gave you are a Corley or a talent.
Maybe you dropped, maybe it was a relationship that you did not
protect. But yeah, me today.
Don't throw away your peace because somebody else lost their
peace. Don't throw away your peace
because of what somebody else did with their peace, because
they gave up on their calling, because they turn labor and
don't give out what knows. They say protect your peace,
protect your peace. Regardless of what others are
doing, protect your will. Protect your gift regardless,
because this is what happened to Moses, the prison of the people.
And he dropped the ball. So protect your will listen.
Now this is where the miracle happens.
This is now. The good news because, and I
feel the grace of God all over this, because God didn't give up
on Moses. No, that's right.
He didn't give up on hoses and he's not giving up on you.
Yeah. We've dropped the ball.
God doesn't give up on us. It's not like a man.
It's not like other God Forgives.
Some other people may not forgive, but God has forgive.
Yes. God has not.
Given up on emojis. He's not given up on you now
instead, God said. And this is very powerful.
Watch this. Just though our. 2 stone stuff
is like the first was guy said. Now there's many was also
Michael when I have psycho chest disturbing me, come up to me on
the mountain and I will write on the side there's the.
Same words that were on the ones you smashed.
Oh, the grace of God has the goodness of God.
Hallelujah. Listen, he didn't give up on
Moses. He restored him.
He didn't cancel Moses. He didn't take appalling path.
No, he reconfirmed the he recommissioned Moses.
He said Moses, come back up again, highlight again, say
glory, say words. Just another chance.
Oh, somebody say that. Another chance.
Oh, I feel that. Oh, I feel that.
I'm linking in a spray today. Another Trump.
Oh, I won't got this one as they're taken for another
chance. Yeah.
Thank you for one more day. You're the God of the recourse.
Another chance, my God. Same calling, saying, well,
that's another chance. That's a God of redemption.
That's when grace steps in. OK, you've not gone too.
Far. OK, it's not over yet.
OK, it's not too far gone. It's not too late.
God is a God of another chance, another grace.
There's no limit to his grace. He's a God of sacred charges.
It gives us a sacred charge. So it's time to rise up and stop
rehearsing what went wrong. Stop rehearsing what went wrong.
Stop replaying how what now? You drop the ball.
What went wrong when you drop the ball, listen, shake off the
Guild because God is scoring you higher waiting up on the
mountain, OK. And so come up and shake off the
gill and just lift your your heart up and come back into the
glory. Step into the glory because this
is your moment to rise up. Hallelujah.
Yeah, the some of you be still carrying the weight of the
mistake of a past mistake. What went wrong?
And you've been wall picks by what you've mishandled.
Listen, let your pastor say. Don't let that past mistake
become your permanent abbess. Yeah, that's.
Right. Yeah.
Don't let what they did, don't let what that person or that was
so, so, so or looking at bold and what people's choices and
things going on in the raw. Don't did that distract you or
what you don't let what that keep you stuck at the bottom of
the mountain. OK, don't let that that divorce,
that addiction, that affair, that anger, that mistake,
failure, doesn't that keep you in shame?
It starts to rise up out. I just keep on moving forward
and start climbing again because God is not looking for for all
his people. God is looking for faith for us.
God is not calling the police. No, he's calling the persistent.
Yeah, he's listening to. Yeah.
Who says I'm climbing again? I'm getting back up again.
That's what is listening for. I'm still climbing.
I'm climbing back up on the mountain again.
I'm climbing again. Like I said to Moses, listen,
most come back onto the mountain.
That's what God is faulty. Come back onto the mountain.
Yeah. David, I'm going to give you
brand new ones. Yeah, it's not OK.
Stop crying over the ones that smashed.
Stop crying over the past mistakes.
Come back up again. Get a new assignment.
That is what God is saying. He's saying the same thing to
you that he said to Moses. That's what he's saying.
He said. Listen, come back up onto the
mountain. You are being recommissioned.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Come on, come on. Go ahead.
And we drop the ball. But haven't we made the
freights? It's a clear slave.
Art is calling us up to the mountain.
He's giving us a planning one. Come on, please.
Recommission. Yeah, that's right.
Now let's go to one of my favorite.
Scriptures in the Bible as I 60 verse one.
Arise they're from the depression and the frustration
in which circumstances have kicked you rise to a new life
shine be right in with the glory of the Lord for your light has
come and the glory of the Lord has risen apart you now now will
in that verse the Bible said God does not say white until you
feel stronger it doesn't say wait until you feel holy until
you feel click yeah he says arise in it he says the.
Circumstances that us catching whatever situation, whatever
mess, whatever circumstances he's saying arise in it, that's
where we are. He did not say wait until you
feel holy or you feel better than stronger to arise.
He said arise in this, arise in the pain, arise in the process,
arise while your heart is still getting.
I'll arise while the tears are still free.
Arise because it's a rising and here is the rising has got
nothing to do with feelings, with how you feel to rise up has
got everything to do with what you've been called today.
That's the word of the Lord. We have been called to rise up.
So let me speak to the wounded warriors.
Let me speak to the silent strugglers, let me speak to the
faithful wars, let me speak to the rising ones that you have
been worshipping through the whites.
You've been weeping and the enemy has been whispering and
been saying to you that you're not strong enough.
Just give up and quite set this one up.
But the devil is a liar. You don't have to be pain free.
You don't have to be struggle free in order to rise.
You don't have to have all the circumstances to be lined up in
perfect true allies, OK, You you don't need it to be painful to
live a purposeful life, OK. And so God.
Is not asking for a flawless record.
When you look at all the warriors throughout the Bible,
many of these greatest warriors in the Bible, they didn't win
because they had a flawless game record.
Now they won't because they did not win, because they were
perfect people. They won because they rose up in
the mess, they rose up in the difficulty, in the challenges,
and they refused to give up. They never laid down.
They sword in the middle of a battle.
That's your warriors. They bled and they still
believe, OK. And I believe that same pouncing
back split anointing is rising up in you.
Yeah. Oh my God, I feel that I wanted
to bother you this nice. It's a bronze black conroiting
that's burning of its attitude. It's very easy.
It's crazy. It's the rise of the ruins and
it's rising up in you and it's in this place.
I feel that emerging of the spikes.
I'll say to you without anointing, it's here, it's a
rise up anointing. I feel it in this space because
there's many of you that you advising our as you're speaking
type this rise in our or in it rising up.
Many of us we have been pressing through.
You can worship with a lip. Listen, I'll never forget when I
wish a bleeder. I was still back in the days at
the community centre, priesthood community centre, and it's just
here comes our wish. A bleeder Moises back, twisted
muscles stuffed shoulders all twisted, all tights up my
growing headache. I mean, he's feeling rough, but
he got. Behind that keyboard, he didn't
wait to feel better, he just started to worship anyway.
My God, I said that your fight, why should put the limb Yes.
And many of you here today, you have similar stories, some of
the Sujai stories that listen, you have showed up beer today,
you have showed up in church with battle on the night,
battles going on the road, pile in your body, disappointment in
your heart, frustration. But you showed up.
I chose. You showed up anyway.
You still came, you still lifted your hands, you still praise,
you stole. So you still came to church
today. Now listen.
That moves the heart of God. God's watching Lordy, God's
watching that moves. The heart of God that touches
the heart of God I made you know I.
Remember when I used to play rugby back in the day and just
before the game? We would get together in the
changing rooms and you just you have the the boots are getting
ready jerseys on and all that and medical tape around the
knees and the joints and the rest medical city and the whole
changing room. It just smells like miffle deep
beats. All right.
You just see these ice packs everywhere and I'm like, wow, it
didn't look like a team getting ready for a game.
It looked like a team that just come off the field.
Let's just come out there. I'll finish the game.
OK. And so it looked more like the
aftermath of a battle, aftermath of a war rather than the start
of a game. I mean, one of my team mates, I
caught my eye. This guy I just looked at, he's
ripped. It was blue and bruised.
He shrubs from the previous guy. He had a place in his hand, I
mean, type around his knees. He had that padded stuff around
his, you know, his shoulders. And Chase had it.
Yeah, like type. Around his head because of the
compassion. I thought to myself, Sir, it's
not going to go on today. No, it's not going to pay.
Now. He's going to set this one up.
Even the coach said, listen, son, take it easy.
You know, you up, take it easy. You don't, you don't, you know,
he literally looked like a walking hospital.
I'm like, I'll never forget what he said to the coast.
I mean, the coach is a young man.
Listen, you could take it outside the coast, he said.
I, I, I'm in pain. I have a little pain, Sir.
But I would rather be in pain in the game than sitting on the
sidelines. Watch that crutch me, that's
Sabre be. I'd rather be in the playing of
pain and sitting on the beach on the sidelines watching.
I want to be in the game. Get back in the game.
Oh, Hallelujah. Wow.
That's just the sound of an overcomer.
That is the sound when he's shaker.
That is the sound of a rising up one.
That is a sound after 5 or I believe that same fire is
burning in this place today. That overcoming is in this room
today. There are people here.
You have walked through hardship, you've walked for
difficulty. You've been not down through
hardship and pretty difficulties.
But what's amazing is even through all of that
difficulties, you still. Came you walked in here anyway.
Heaven is taking notice. Heaven is taking notice.
Listen, you've taken hits, you've taken knocks, you've
taken Hicks, but you didn't stay up.
Even takes notice. That's heaven.
The stars, The scars don't disqualify champion scars.
What it? Proves that you stayed in the
game, You stayed in the fights. You're starting the fight.
Come on, come on. Let's just be honest.
Life is not easy. It's not pretty.
Come on. OK, is this.
But what's amazing is, listen, maybe life happened to you and
you've had some deep hurts, you've had some knocks and you
find yourselves on the bench on the side lots.
I'm here to tell you, get back in the game.
We've all been hit. Get back in the game.
Listen, we've all gone through, we've all had that.
Listen, get back in the game. Don't let the pain keep you on
the sidelines. Yeah.
We've all had church fight some person hurt or this we've all
had hurt at workplaces or different places.
OK, But I'm here to tell you, don't let that pain put you on
the side. Don't wait to get it all
together before you get back into the game.
I love what Bill Johnson said. It's right in the front lines.
That is where we belong, The fraud.
OK, not at the sidelines. I remember talking to somebody
at church. Yeah, it was one Sunday morning.
And the person that just got through surgery and I just asked
her, I'm like, how are you doing?
And that person smiled through the pain.
And you're sipping icy faces. You've got the surgeon right
there. He's smiled through the.
I am. And.
And this is what the person I'll never forget.
It was and some person said I am hurting but I'm yeah.
Of the surgery. OK, I'm hurting.
Bam. Yeah.
Heaven notices. I'm hoping.
OK. I've had surgery.
I'm stuck. Michelle, my wife gave birth one
Sunday. The very next Sunday, she's back
in church. Come on.
Somebody. No.
Somebody. Oh, my God.
She's not like no, Michelle. No, no, no, no.
I live with her. That woman is a warrior.
I'm sending you there. She's a warrior.
My God, she's a warrior. I'll go back with her for
everything. I'll fight.
That's a warrior. She's a mighty warrior.
Oh my God. You don't make so far.
I know, I know. Right there.
I just not there. And I hug and I just.
You are amazing. That's the kind of phrase that
moves matters. You might be hurting, but you
showed up. You might be shrubbing, You
might be weeping, but you're still worshipping.
There's power in staying in the game.
There's power in staying in the fight.
There's power in staying on the field.
We've all been hit. We have all been betrayed.
We've all been rejected. We've all had our.
Moments where the enemies tried to knock us out and knock us
down. But just because you are
limping, it doesn't mean you have lost.
You don't need to have it all together to say, coach, put me
back in. You don't need to have all
together. I'm still ready.
I might have been knocked out already.
Still available, Lord. And so when God sees you, Christ
through the pain, when God sees you serve through the struggle,
God releases fresh what? And it releases a fresh fire.
Fisher Mighty. Was I love with Tyson through
when he can listen. When you rise up, you look the
energy bit in the past. You say, listen, I'm back.
Are you? Oh, you saw she's a Milky.
All right, I can't. You just start a pop, but you
just have that devil Devil you fight.
If you don't be that, I am back with the fight with the
vengeance. I am still here.
I am still in the game. I'm still fighting the good
fight a fight. Please.
We're going to fight us. We're going to fight us to the
end. Oh Hallelujah.
It's not falling, it's getting up.
Remember that tablet? Oh, Psalm 23 For even though I
walk through the valley, I will fear no evil for you.
What free David? Didn't say even though I sit in
the valley, he say no, I walk through it, he moving through
it. And we don't pitch a tent in the
valley. We don't stay stuck in the
valley. We keep on moving forward
because there's more ahead, the bases there to come.
There is glory waiting. Now let me tell you a story that
moves me to this day in 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
I had holiday Tanzania marathon runner his name is John Stephen
up while he was a runner in the race and so worried partway
through the race he fell ha dislocated his knee.
He just completely bruised his leg, buzzed us, busted his leg,
he was bleeding, could barely. Walk I saw the most people
assumed that he was out of the race, but then hours later, the
crowd heard a stir and yes, a quarry lumping into the stadium.
And so when the reports are asking, listen, party, why
didn't you just give up? Why didn't you just stop and
give up? He said.
My country did not sing me for thousands and miles all the way
here to just start a race. My country sent me 5000 miles
away because I've finished the race.
We've been a CG. Yeah, of the sun.
Not to start the race, but to finish your race.
You've been stained from heaven. We are from heaven.
We are just passing through this earth.
This is not our home. We are called to finish.
Mount this is what the race it is Judge.
I never thought of stopping. God didn't call you to start
that you were born to finish. What God has started in your
life, He is faithful to complete.
Hallelujah. So in closing, let me take you
to story that Jesus told about a young man, a son.
We decided that he did not want his father's house anymore.
So he asked for the Puritans early.
Packed his bag, ran away from homeless bar is Ecuador.
Fart like freedom parted. Chase off of the fall.
You see, sin has got a pattern. It always leads to a dead end
and the dead and soon he ended up sitting in the full feed pig
begging for food made for the pigs.
Now watch this because this is where the story shifts.
When he came to himself, he said how many of my father's hide
siblings are breathing now speak and I perish with hunger.
Now that is a moment where the light, the truth shone through
the lies, and he came to himself.
Now the very next verse, Watch this because this is the voice
of Revive. Verse it I will.
Arise somebody Shire, and I'll come to my father.
I will arise, Hallelujah, arise even where they say that even in
the Mace, notice he did not first clean himself up.
He did not like to clean himself up first.
He said right, right there in the Mace.
That is a church. I want you to grab that in your
spirit to that in the difficulty in the chalice.
On the floor, knocked down in the big bin.
I will arise. That's where it starts.
Am I? That's been changed.
A changed mind and made-up mind. He didn't wait until you feel
holy. He just came back.
He did not come. That Polish.
He did not come back. OK, he arose.
He came back. And so as we come to the close
of this word today, this is your moment to rise.
Arise from the mess, the difficult, the challenge,
whatever it is. Arise from the depression, from
the pit, from the loudiness. Arise.
From the rejection, the sickness, the affliction, the
guilt, whatever he arise out of it.
Because this is the start of your comeback.
Now here's my favorite part of the story, verse 20 And he
arouse and came to his father. But when he was still a great
boy, or his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell
on his neck and kissed in. I love it when the sun arise.
The Bible says that the Father ran to him.
And the father did not cross his arms and say, oh, go, go and
clean yourself up. Go in this soldiers up before I
talk to you. No.
He opened his arms. He wrapped his arms in the
honey. He kissed him with compassion.
He loved him, he said. Get him.
On get away. Fire off.
Fire up the face. Let's send.
It runs. My son is back.
Oh yes, instead of late.
He aroused my son is back. Listen, the father ran to him.
He did not wait for him to even while the son still smelled like
the pig still smelled dirty and was broken, stolen dirty.
But the father ran to him and he said my son is back.
And that is what? We come as we are, as you come
as you are. We don't have to fix ourselves
through something. You don't take a bath.
You go to take a bath to get kicked.
Come as you are just as you are, and that's what happens when you
rise. Yes, I'm initial stands
together. Let's keep our surprise
Hallelujah. Now maybe you here today or you
feel like Paul that's been styled left for dead by
disappointment or rejected by people OK or beaten down by
betrayal. Or maybe you feel like the
prodigal that you far from where you thought you.
Would be in Life OK, Maybe something happened, A deep
hurts, a wrong turn, a rejection, a secret struggle, a
silent grief. Maybe something happened and now
you are sitting in your own pig pen and so you are asking how in
the world did I get you? How did I would God even want
someone like me? Listen, the truth is the Father
has been waiting. He's been waiting for a
celebration. He's waiting for you and for me,
for with arms wide open for his sons and his daughters to arise.
He's waiting to celebrate, to say rise up, silent daughter,
rise up and come. And so if this word is touching
your heart today and it's burning in your spirit and this
is a word for you, I want you to respond.
And if you say this is your comeback moment.
This is your rise moment. Listen, I want you to respond
with everything you've got and open your heart and cry out to
God and say God, this is my moment.
I'm coming back, I'm arising. This is my moment.
So if that is you, lift up your hands to heaven right now and
say out loud, this is my comeback moment.
I am arising again. Somebody said Hallelujah, now
receive this prayer. Raise your eyes to heaven.
Father, I pray for every son, every daughter standing in your
presence right now. Some have fallen, some have
wandered, some have wet behind closed doors.
But right now, Lord, I thank you that you are the God who
restores. I thank you that you are the God
of resurrection. And then that resurrection power
begins to flow. Let it be flow right now and let
every buried dream begin to rise.
Let it begin to love again. And Lord break off every shade,
every guilt, every betrayal. Lord cover.
They passed under the blood of Jesus, the power of the blood of
Jesus. And I declare to everyone here,
you will arise, you will never rise again.
You'll bounce back. You will fulfill the call of God
in your life in Jesus mighty name, I, the Queen of the fly
over you. Look at me everybody.
You will rise again, you will rise again.
You will rise. Come on somebody, so you will
rise. Let's put some declarations out
now together. Say I decree this is my rise up
moments. I declare I've got resurrection
power inside of me. I declare.
I will rise again, shout it one good time, give down some brain.
Hallelujah. So before I.
Close If we've never invited Jesus into your heart, into your
life, I want to give you an opportunity.
If there's anybody yet that want to receive Jesus, become a child
of God. If that's you, just raise up
your hand, right? There where you are, anybody is
everybody a child of God. Everybody right now, if you know
this is your last damn planet Earth, you stand before God.
You're going to heaven if you know 100% for sure.
Anybody anybody here everybody born again safe washing the
blood Hallelujah respride together.
Pity. Thank you.
We're searching the biggest dead.
We're searching up here. Keep the front.
We're going to worship bar for a moment and we get a minister.
I really believe God is going to do some powerful amazing healing
miracles in our mist today. So right now let's come
expected. Let's come hungry Hallelujah.
Let's go for it. Let's let's worship for about
let's press in. This is our price of worship,
inspiring and in truth, right God and this is our moment
church. Let's grab.
How did this word sink into your story today?