Are you ready for the Word today?
Because today I want to continue on the way we left off last
Sunday. I want to flow in that same
resurrection theme because God is still speaking.
Yeah. I mean, I'm like, there is still
more. Are you ready for more?
Are you ready to go deeper? Because I was in the beginning.
I'm like, right, Lord, let me prepare.
Ready to go and do something else.
The Holy Spirit just reminded me and showed me more and more
things and said stainless flow myself.
This is what I'm saying in this hour.
This is what I'm doing right now.
This is resurrection flow. So this resurrection theme, it
might become like a serious, OK, so today's Part 2.
So we got to fly in this. I mean, did you love that
worship? I mean, my goodness, it's just
wonderful how God is just saying the same thing and it's all
through Scripture, this resurrection power, this theme,
how it's living and flowing in in our daily lives.
I mean, so we're going to go into this and we're going to go
for it because I believe this word is going to build 5 is
going to bring strength. I literally believe that that
God is saying that it's time to rise up and, and it's, it's all
over resurrection, rise up, rise, rise and shine.
You know, it's, it's there and God's pointing it out as God is
saying it's time to get up. OK, so I want to preach this
morning and share. With you about the.
Power of getting up. I mean, OK, now listen, maybe
you feel a little bit low or down or maybe something's
happened this week. Some things, some setbacks,
disappointments happen. OK, but listen when we are in
God. With God, with God, when we
belong to God, down is never your final destination.
Down is never our final permanent destination.
OK. And so that so.
With God, we the only way for us is up.
Yeah, yeah, it's up. It's up.
That's right. Yeah.
And so the the message is is called today and I'll just put
up the screen is a get up. Hallelujah.
Get up and this is going to be amazing.
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So, yeah, today, if that's OK, I might sneak in a couple of
verses in the Bible. Yeah, I know.
I'd also like it on the screen, all that.
But, you know, I might sneak in a couple.
Yeah. For this, a new, brand new,
brand new Bible. It just smells amazing.
I know that. So you have to be hungry for the
word, but yeah, I'm smelling the word.
Yeah. When?
When God smells his word or something's about to happen when
God smells his word. So yeah, we are smiling these
words this morning. So I might read.
So I'll read up a little bit then and see where we go from.
Yeah, but I really have a word what God has given us.
And so let's start with John 5 and then we see where we go from
them. So John chapter 5.
Well, let me read the first one off on the screen then and then
we'll go from there. John chapter 5 and verse 5 and
it says 1 was there had been an invalid for 38 years.
When Jesus saw him lying there, he learned that he had been in
this condition for a long time. He asked him do you want to get
well Sir? Then valid replied, I have no
one to help me into the pool when the water stood while I'm
trying to get in someone else goes down ahead of me.
Now watch this very next verse. This is our main text proof text
for the day says here verse I then Jesus said to him get up
everybody say get up, get up. Oh Hallelujah.
Come on. Come on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Knocked out, but not knocked
out. He's getting back up right?
Oh. Somebody's been watching some
boxing. Yeah.
Mike Tyson come on in. What round that Mike Tyson, He
was knocked down, but he got back up, right?
Come back. Somebody said come back,
Hallelujah. So get back up and he says pick
up your man and walk at once. The man was good and he picked
up his man and he walks. So listen, my Father, we thank
you for your word, that your word is powerful.
It's alive, it's full of strength.
Lord, speak to us every heart here in this place.
Holy Spirit, move powerfully. We thank you.
Let faith arise in every heart and we give you all the praise.
In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray somebody say Amen and say
yeah this week. And I play some football with
the kids there. Jocks lying.
And I didn't see the ball coming.
And So what happened? Obviously the ball came and I
stepped on the ball and boy did I had a big.
I don't know how I fell backwards, but somehow the ball
was under my feet. And I think Simon will know what
I'm talking about. OK, he's still awake.
But I was sort of sitting there and, and the football came right
under my and I swirled around and all of us, I fell backwards.
I landed on my bottom. And then I am and I see Peter,
my son and the boys and there's a football and I'm like, OK, And
So what happened with the football?
I just got back up. And one of the first things we
learn in life is when we fall, we get back up again.
We sit with children all the time.
When the kids Start learning to walk with our children, when
there's now on the scooters or where there's now on their bikes
or football, whether they fall, they stumble.
I mean, they hit the ground the other day at the skate park.
Come on. I mean, these kids, they were on
the scooters and they fell back, right?
Just Grazes put some prosters on and they just, OK.
But listen, we don't go and say OK.
It's over. It's it's the end.
Stay down. No, that's not what we do as
Perry. We go a good parent.
We say, listen, come on, come back, OK, you know, try again.
Yes, yes, the Pike. Yes, it's good to use the
football. Let's try again.
Isn't that what we do as good parents?
We encourage people, you know, our kids and our family to get
up. And that is how God made us.
He made us put something in us that knows how to get back up.
OK? We had to get back up in life.
And that is such a vital word for us today because, listen,
life has got a way of knocking people.
Down. Things happen in life that we
don't always understand. Bad reports, a disappointment, a
loss, something unexpected that happened.
And we don't always understand the loss.
And it just seems something that is so unfair.
Why did this happen? And it's like the the whole it's
like life has knocked it down. And listen, I cannot promise you
that life will never knock you down.
But what I can promise you, based on the authority of the
word of God, you can get back up again.
Oh, come on, somebody. I feel the part of God in this
place. Yeah, you can get back up again.
That's right. Praise God.
And we see in this passage of Scripture here in John chapter
5, this man, he has been paralysed for a very long time.
The Bible says he has been on that condition for 38 years now.
That's a very long time to look at the same mat, the same pain,
the same struggle, the same cycle, the same question and ask
the same question. Will anything ever going to
change? Is something going to shifting
change in my life? But you know what I love about
Jesus? He knows how to step into stuck
places. That has been certain places
that has been stuck for a very long time.
And Jesus did not pass the man bye.
He went right straight to him. Oh, and I love these powerful
words. Jesus walk up to him and say,
get up. Oh, I feel the anointing of God,
get up. Oh, I feel the power of God.
That is anointed. That is the word of God.
That is the voice of faith. That is one word from the
presence of God, the word of Jesus.
And Jesus released that word. Get up.
There's enough power to that word to raise that man of that
man get up. Oh yes, Jesus, with an anointed
word. I sense that.
I sense get up power in this room right now.
I sense get up anointing in this room, right for your situation,
for your family. I sense that get up power.
Something is already shifting in this room right now.
Faith is arising. Something is shifting in this
place. Is get up power in this room.
I believe this for somebody. This is your get up day.
This is your get up. Come on, whatever the situation,
whatever the problem, this is your rise up moment.
This is your get up moment from what I've tried to hold you back
for years. Oh yeah, if it's now 38 years or
1020 years, whatever is trying to hold you back, this is your
get up moment. Because we come with the
authority of the Word of God and the Word of God is going to
final authority. And when Jesus said get up, that
means that you can rise again. Oh, my God, somebody's getting
this word today. That's what Jesus, how powerful
it was. Somebody say get up.
Yeah, something is shifting in this room right now.
Ain't no grave is going to hold my body down.
No, no, no, no. I'm telling you later we are
going to rejoice. Come on.
This is my get up day. Say that.
This is my get up day. Say that again.
This is, you might get up there, give God some praise if you
believe it. Somebody, yeah, Jesus did not
come to just help the person manage the problem.
He didn't come to manage his problem on the mat, just to
manage it. Jesus came to bring him out of
the problem, out of the situation, out of the struggle.
And I came to announce today with the word of the living God,
a word from the Lord, that when the word of the Lord is
released, he can break the cycle.
He can break it, can break any cycle or bondage, whatever has
helped you for years. And he can bring about something
brand new in a moment with a word from the Lord, with a word
from Jesus, with a get up. Word from Jesus can break any
chain, break any bondage. And so when Jesus said those
words, just those words, those powerful anointed words of life,
when Jesus says get up, he's telling you that you can rise,
that addiction can be broken, that chain can be broken, that
cycle can be broken, that struggle can stop, that sickness
can be healed. And that peace can come back.
That joy can return to your life and that dream can come alive
again just from those anointed words of the Lord.
That is why Micah said when I fall I will rise.
Somebody got that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. When I fall I will rise.
Yeah. The Bible says the righteous
falls how many times? 7 times and rise again.
Let me show you this verse in Micah 7.
This is very powerful. He says do not rejoice over me,
my enemy. When I fall I will arise.
Notice Micah did not say if I fall, kids are going to ride the
boy play football. Not if we win.
We know there's going to be some fall OK not if I fall.
He said when I fall, not if I fall.
The righteous fall 7th time not if.
OK, well, nobody's immune from fall.
Not if I it's when I fall. So in other words, yes, I got
hits. Yeah, I got hits I got yes.
I know exactly what a heart sees it feels like.
I know what it feels, what pressure feels like.
I know what it feels, what pressure and difficulty feels
like. And harsher.
He knows what it the pain it feels like.
But that's not how my story ends.
That's not the final story. I will arise.
Yes, I might be down. Yes, I had a fall.
Yes, I'm the figure. But I will not end it.
That's not the end of the story. I will arise.
Come on. Somebody who's with me.
Who's with me in this place. Come on, that's what we're going
to do because that is the word of the world today that God sent
me in today to announce and to decree and declare and prophecy
over this house. You will rise out of that
heaviness. You will rise out of that
difficult. You will rise out of depression.
You will arise. You will arise out of that
family difficulty. You will arise out of that
attack. You will arise out of that
attack. You will arise out of delay and
stagnation and joy will come back again.
Peace will come back again your eyes out of that old season.
Because the same God who said get up then he's the same God
speaking today. He's the same yesterday, today
and forever. He's still saying get up today.
The same God who said get up then.
He's the same God who's saying get up now.
He's the same God. He's still speaking.
He's still saying the same things over and over.
And how many of you know that when he speaks, things shift.
When he speaks dead things come alive.
When he speaks, change, break. When he speaks, lives changed
forever. When he speaks, people rise.
When he speaks, oh Hallelujah. I believe this is a word of the
Lord for somebody here today. Hallelujah, Micah says.
When I fall, even when I fall. So as a believer, it doesn't
mean we never feel pain. As a believers, we never.
It doesn't mean we never feel the heat, all the difficulty,
but it means we don't stay there.
That's five. OK, five, it doesn't mean you
don't feel pain. But five says we don't live
there, we don't stay there. We don't make that our permanent
location. OK, we don't stay there.
Now, let me just give you a picture of what that looks like.
Think of a palm tree. Now, if you've seen these
documentaries on TVA palm tree, when that storm or that
hurricane come, that palm tree bends over.
I mean, it bends like completely over like this.
It looks like that palm tree is completely overdone finished.
Because when you look at that palm tree when it paints like
this, you would think it will never be able to stand back up
again. You would think you'd never be
able to, but listen, when that storm passes over that bended
palm tree, it bounce back. It sort of flips right back,
stands right back up again tall. That's a bounce back power that
is in you. And listen, the storm did not
make the palm tree weaker. It might be stronger.
Can you say I made somebody? Come on?
That's the way that God made you.
You may be knocked down, but you're not knocked out.
Come on. There's some fighting you.
There's some comeback power in you.
They thought they knocked him down, but listen, they did not
knock him out. There's come by power, pounds by
power. Yeah, you're not knocked out.
Listen, you may get hit, but you are not staying down.
You are bouncing back. You are getting back up.
You may feel the pressure, but that pressure does not have the
final word. OK, Romans 8 says verse 11.
The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives on the
inside of you. That means that same power that
got Jesus out of the grave. That power is living in you.
You are full of resurrection power inside of you.
And listen, that means God has put something on the inside of
you that the devil can never destroy.
My God, you see, that's the thing.
The table did not see that coming.
He did not see that resurrection power coming.
And the enemy may look at your life right now and think, well,
you know, the joy, it's over. The piece is over.
That's the end of your story. That's the end.
The set back, the failure, that's the end.
You know, looking at your family, your situation and the
hardship, he thought that that fall or that mistake, that was
the finish. And the enemy may look at your
life and think that he has won. Listen, he has misread the
chapter. Big mistake.
He must read the chapter because, listen, what happened
here is and we see that office go how the enemy.
Big mistake. Celebrate it too soon.
Yeah, he popped the confetti way too soon.
Not a big mistake. Now I want to say you something.
Yeah. Listen, Michael says this.
Listen, don't celebrate, OK? He's like, listen, don't
celebrate enemy. And he says talking to his
enemy. And Michael say listen, don't,
don't enemy, don't rejoice over me, OK?
Listen, enemy, don't get excited.
People don't get excited too quickly.
Yeah, OK, don't get excited and don't celebrate you too quickly.
And think and look at my life in my present condition and think
that is because that is not my final condition.
I might be going through a difficult, challenging
situation, but that is not the final destination.
That is not my final down, is not my final location.
Can you say I mean somebody So enemy don't get too excited
about what you see in my life right now.
You better not celebrate too soon.
You know what I mean? And this is what he's saying
because down is not my final because the word of the Lord is
the enemy celebrated over your life too soon.
He looked at your life and he saw your mind under pressure and
he thought he's 1. He looked at your family and he
saw some challenges in the family under attack and he
thought that it's over the enemy.
He looked at the attack, he looked at the hot season and the
difficulty that you've been. He looked at that and he thought
you are going to stay stuck there.
But the enemy made a mistake. He celebrated.
You said come on somebody because he there was something
that the table did not count on when he looked at your life and
that's something that he did not count on that he didn't look is
called resurrection. Power inside of you come by
power inside of you. It's a kid of power inside of
you, a rise up moment of power. There is faith in you.
There is strength in you to rise again.
Hallelujah. And So what?
Knocked you down and will not keep you down.
Regardless of what it is that has knocked you down, it will
not keep you down. Come on.
We looked at this. They put Jesus in the tomb on
Friday. It looked like a big
disappointment. The enemy looked.
Yeah, we got him. The enemy thought the devil and
darkness said we have got the final word.
Jesus is gone and dead. We've got him.
We won. Darkness celebrated 2 spin.
They the confetti too soon. They celebrate their public
champagne too soon. Big problem.
Big mistake. Devil because he did not see
Sunday coming. Everything looked dark on
Friday, but Sunday is coming. Sunday tells a different story
altogether. Sunday is a resurrection and
Jesus, what's going on? Jesus came back.
What a comeback. He got back up again.
That's our message today. The part he got back up again,
he got up. Oh that comeback, that rise up
power, that resurrection power, that same that got him out of
the grave vision you, there's comeback power in you.
There's resurrection power in you.
These Hallelujah, somebody Are you ready for this resurrection?
Somebody showed resurrection glory be to God.
So when life says stay down, there is something inside of
your spirit that rises up in you that says I'm getting back up,
come on. And life has knocked you down,
something unexpected. There's something on the inside
of you that rises up and said, oh, if God took it back up
again, say that in our lives. That's the Christian life.
It's a bounce back resurrection life that is in US of bouncing
back, of rising up again. Somebody say I'm getting back
up, say it again, I'm getting back up.
Say I've got to get up. Say I'm not staying down.
I will arise and see the goodness of the Lord.
Now give God some praise in this place.
Hallelujah, glory to God. Wow, We see the same truth in
Acts chapter 14. Right in the beginning of the
chapter, Paul the Apostle, he looked at the man who has never
walked and he said stand up and walk.
Can you imagine that? Here's your apostle Paul walking
and he said that man, he's never walked.
And he said it's right up. Stand up straight to your finger
and walk. Oh, I love it.
And the moment Paul the apostle, I see Jesus at the pool, I see
Paul the apostle. He says the moment he says get
up, the Pablo says the man jumped, that paralyzed man
jumped on his feet and walk. What a mirror somebody
Hallelujah for that miracle. I want to show it to you in the
world. He jumped up.
Let me show it to you. Acts 14 verse 9.
He says sit with a loud voice, stand up straight, sit up, get
up on your feet and he leap and walk.
One moment a man was stuck, the next moment he's moving from an
anointed word of God, from the word of the Lord, an anointed
word, one word. Shift that entire thing from
being stuck to moving. That's the part of the word of
God today Church. That's what called it with the
word of God. He gave the word of the Lord to
this man and he said to him, get up.
That's what we are here. We are using the word of the
Lord today. God's put his word in and we are
speaking and we saying get up. We get up every situation,
whatever situation it is. But now watch this the very same
chapter, they say reverse. Now they say turn around.
Now I want you to get get hold of this because this is very
powerful. The very same chapter versus
later, Paul's down. The very same chapter, Paul is
down. I want you to get this word
today, Paul. All his heads, Paul hit the
ground. Listen, Church, I want you to
get this because it's very powerful.
Now here he is, the same guy Saint Paul who said to somebody
else, get up now he's down. OK, That's how life can be
sometimes. In the same season, you can have
a miracle and a battle. In the same season you can have
a breakthrough and you can have a set back.
At the same season, the same guy Paul says to somebody else, get
up. That person go now pulls down.
Read this in the world Ball hit the ground.
Stunt. He's stunt, he's in the ground.
They dragged him outside of the city.
Left for dead. Alls down.
Great man of gods down. 1 moment he's helping somebody else to
get up. The very next moment he's down.
That's life. It happens that way sometimes
that in the same season you have a victory, but then you get hit
by something you did not see coming.
Unexpected knock down now one hard day.
Listen, church does not cancel God's plan for your life.
One hard moment, one hard difficulty.
Writes again because what I love about Paul and this has
encouraged me so much that the Bible says Paul got up
Hallelujah. Oh, I feel the presence of God.
I feel that getting a power in this place Today Paul caught up
and he went tacky to the city. Somebody say resurrection power.
My God, I got to show you this. Wow.
This is such a powerful verse. It says Acts 14, verse 19.
They stoned Paul. They dragged him outside the
city thinking he was dead. But after the disciples had
gathered around, he got somebody say he got up and he went back.
He got up. Somebody said, I've got to get
up. Yeah.
I love that. Paul did not stay down.
Come on. They stoned him, therefore dead.
He did not stay down. He did not stay in the dead.
But the Bible says that he got up and he did not let one hard
difficult moment where they started.
He did not let that define him, that tell him and say who he and
decide who he was. OK, and I want you to hear this
word today because what mocked you down does not get to define
you. That mistake, that Finder, does
not get to define who you are, what has knocked you down to the
disappointment, the delay. It doesn't.
One bad chapter is not the whole story.
It's one bad moment by Chapter 1 failure difficulty.
One fall does not cancel your calling.
The Bible says the righteous fools, but we get up every time.
And Paul is not the only one that shows us this.
Peter shows it to us as well. Peter failed miserably.
We saw that last week, how Peter failed.
He denied Jesus and he wept bitterly and he failed.
But what I love about heaven said and Peter and Peter, Grace
still called his name. Mercy still had got a plan for
him even with the fire. God did not write him off.
Listen, pizza made a comeback. What a comeback after that
failure and that Mace and all that.
Pizza caught up on the day of pizza cost.
He was the one that preached. And how many people got saved?
How many souls 3000? I love these souls coming in
3000 souls. Peter, the failure did not
cancel his future. The mistake the maze did not
cancel his destiny. OK, he was.
God did not write him off because of a failure.
So one hot season is not going to cancel your future.
And sometimes all it takes is just one word from God.
Gaza, listen, I'm not done with you.
You're still mine. Just get up and try again.
Yeah, we just try again. I love our God.
God of another chance. Hallelujah.
Try again. You know, that's what happened
with Thomas Edison. You know, he kept on trying and
trying. Trying.
He failed and failed trying to invent a light bulb.
And it is. And he just tried to invent a
light bulb and then kept on failing.
But he just kept on going, just kept on trying, keep up.
And you know, when people tried to label him and limit him, his
mother spoke fight over him. I love that because his mother
saw greatness. Other people wrote him off.
You're not going to do this. You're not going to be able to
invent a light bulb, but you're not.
His mother spoke greatness of it.
That's the power of 1. Voice of faith over you.
Speak out faith over your life. You know, I love the story of
KFC. You know, like chicken finger
licking Good. Come on, KFC.
I'm pretty myself. Hungry.
How are we going to have some KFC?
OK. Finger licking Good.
OK. Colonel Saunders.
It reminds us that it's never too late.
You know Colonel Saunders that started KFC.
He was 65. He started KFC, you know, when
he start, he was 65, he was bastard broken.
He had nothing. He was like, so it's like in the
natural, it looks like it's way too late.
You've got nothing and all that. And but he's getting something
small and it wasn't a big company.
It wasn't a big opportunity. All that he had was a chicken
recipe and he's got this chicken recipe.
And that's how God works sometimes.
He, he, he works with the small things, the things that people
overlook, the simple things. And he's got this chicken
recipe. And here goes Colonel Saunders.
And he goes from and he knocks on doors and knocking on doors
and he goes from restaurant to restaurant, he says.
Please can you give me a chance? And he just keeps on going,
knocking from restaurant and they just keep on hearing no,
no, no. And they just keep on turning
down and down and out over and over again.
But I I love the fact that he just kept on knocking.
He just kept on moving forward and like not they say that he
was more than thousands. So Can you imagine 1000 no's So
you knock on this door. Got a chicken recipe taste
delicious. No, no 1000 opportunities to
quit it sometimes sounds like you know when we out and about
evangelizing energy you hand out flies and people.
No, no, you know, and they're like at the Peel Center, you're
like, but what I love about Colonel Saunders, and this is a
powerful story about KFC is that he did, he just kept on
knocking, waited for the one door and finally one door open
up. That one door, that one open
door became such an opportunity. It opened a whole new season for
him. And sometimes we can be doing
evangelism and you can have 1000 times.
No, no, no, no, no. And you can have that one
person, oh, that one person that says, yes, I want Jesus, one
more soul for the Kingdom of God.
I love that one more. This week we play Sabre.
Come on, you're believing God every day for one soul, every
day one person. Yes, there's going to be some
nose and but look at Colin Saunders.
It's never too late. And it's just that one
opportunity, that one door that opened up and everything
changed. And I just love that one door
opportunity. And you know, what I love about
this story is that he's come back.
Didn't just bless him, but he became a blessing to others.
You know how when he came to the Lord, you know, Colonel
Saunders, he helped a struggling church.
Yeah, this is not a lot of people know this, but it's
incredible that he actually, there was a church that had a
building project going on and the whole project fell through
and they're about to go completely bankrupt.
This church is about to completely close and shut and
all. Colonel Saunders walked in.
He said at the back of the church, he walked up to the
pastor, asked the pastor about the bullet.
The pastor explained everything. He said this and it's always
gone. We, we, we cannot, the whole
church going to Colonel Saunders said, how much do you need?
Colonel Saunders wrote out a check, $1 million and save that
entire church. Come on, somebody give God some
praise. Give God some praise.
And that's what I love. At 65, he had nothing.
Moments later, he's writing out a check for a billion.
That is your destiny. God is calling you from going to
nobody to somebody, from saying no to saying yes.
Let that become a yes in your life.
Let that contract become yes. Let that promotion come.
Let that door, that job, that company open up for you.
Let that balance open up into the green for you.
May you ship from the overdraft into the from the underdraft to
the overdraft from the red into the green.
May that happen to you church because a placing that not just
stop with him, he become a blessing.
And you see, when God restores you, when God lifts you up, it's
never just about you. And God blesses your life and
lifts you up. It's for you to become a
blessing for your comeback, to become somebody's miracle.
Come on, somebody, yes. So it's never too late.
You're never too far behind for a comeback.
Oh, you say, well, but too many things has gone wrong.
God is a God of restoration. He can restore and make it brand
new. Just it takes one word from God,
one phone call, one e-mail, one divine connection.
Just one like that. You are one years away from a
brand new season, 1 years away from your biggest breakthrough
in your life. You are one.
Yes, I prophecy over you. I declare this over your life.
Just like Colonel Saunders, you are one years away from
franchises around the globe. Just just some ministries around
the globe, revival and Great Awakening, businesses opening up
business branches around the world.
How about Sandbach and you take the Casper from the UK to Africa
around the world. Karabasi andorabasatianti.
Oh Rabasi, I see a moment of favour on somebody today.
I see that's happening. I see an anointing falling on
somebody in this place. Hallelujah.
Now, let me tell you about one of the greatest comebacks in the
bottle, because maybe you say, well, you know, Pastor, my
problems, my trouble, my issue is not because of something
that's happened to me, but it's because of my own choices, my
own poor choices, because of my own compromise.
That's why Samsung's story is so powerful, because Samsung was
called. He was anointed.
He had a calling, but he misused it.
He had strength, but he misused it.
He had a calling. He had a gifting upon his life,
but he compromised because of his mistakes.
The enemy came in, found him up, blinded him and tried to
convince him that his story is finished, that it's over.
But listen, I'm here to tell some, some of you that listen,
the devil celebrated too soon. Oh, my God.
As a yeah, that's exactly what happened because the devil
misread his story. You see, the devil did not see
this coming because the Bible says something very powerful.
Sad songs. Hey began to grab back.
Say Jesus, that's what the bottles if Bible says something
very powerful, you see the devil didn't see this.
The Bible says his hair began to grow back.
Oh my God, I love that. And so while the enemy fought
that he was finished, the enemy thought he had finished.
Hands on, off. He was mocking him.
He thought he was finished. Well, the enemy thought Heaven
was rebuilding him. How was mocking him?
Heaven was restoring him. Heaven was rebuilding him.
The Bible says his hair started to grow back again.
His strength was coming back, His courage was coming back.
His purpose was coming back, His fire was coming back.
Hallelujah. And I declare over you today.
This is your word today. Your joy is coming back, your
strength is coming back, your blessing, your peace is coming
back. Your health is coming back.
Your family is coming back. Hallelujah strength is coming
back to you Somebody say it's coming back come on shot it is
coming back it's coming back come on we've had a testament
we've seen people say grow back. Where's Carol come on you know
it's powerful. Can you testify that that is
true After Carol came on time to the prayer line after receiving
pray the by her she come she she actually testified that I hate
grow back confirm that that is true what happened so.
My hair just started falling out when I went on the holiday I
think it was. I don't know what what the
reason was, but it started falling out and when I came back
it just didn't seem to be stopping.
So I came up for prayer and pastor will pray for me for it
to stop shedding and a couple of days later it stopped.
Hallelujah, somebody said. You got a surprise at this
place. I love the fact Carol showed me
the other day, Jacques Lane and the boxer said, look your
poster, one look at their hair, it's Gray.
My God, God could do a miracle for you.
Your strength is coming back. Your youth is coming back.
Some of you have been feeling so tired and exhausted.
Your strength and energy is coming back.
Oh my God, I feel the anointing in this place.
Hallelujah. You know, Simonson prayed one of
the most powerful. Praise Lord, give me strength
one more time. Yeah, yeah, I love that.
Give me strength one more time. What an honest prayer.
What a powerful prayer from the cry of a man's heart that says,
God, I cannot do this without you.
God, touch me one more time. Let's show these Philistines.
Let's show the devil his boss. This devil has been laughing and
mocking, but show him his boss. Touch me one more time, Lord,
restore me. What some of you ought to need
to pray that, pray this week, pray that pray, pray that, pray.
Lord, do it again. Do it again.
And Lord, we are king. Keep me on fire.
Rhino donkey is not here anymore.
Do it again for the UK. Come on somewhere the great
generals of course, are now. You are sitting here.
We are sitting here. Who's the next Billy Graham in
this place? Who's the next Ronald Bonker?
Where's Catherine Coleman in this place?
Where's the next one? They are brought in the harvest,
the Billy Graham's, Yes. But now you are here and you've
got to cry out to God and say do it again, Lord, raise me up.
It's time to get up. No more excuses.
It's time to rise up and say, Lord, do it again.
And here's the good news. You know when God.
Brought Samsung back. How?
God brought him back. God can bring you back.
Yeah, God can bring you back. So don't count yourself out.
Don't let a failure write your ending.
Because grace is still moving. God's not finished with you yet.
Lord, do it again. Somebody say Lord, do it again.
Lord, do it again. And then there's Moses shows us
how God can rewrite something that we thought we have ruined.
God gave him the stone tablets sacred thing was something so
sacred give Moses entrusted Moses with such sacred holy
things, these holy, these tablets written by the very hand
of God. And Moses in his frustration,
flew down and broke it. In his anger, he let it dropped
and he crossed and damaged what God has entrusted to him.
And he damaged it through the his anger.
And that's sometimes what we do. We let our hurt damage a
relationship. We let our hurt, we let the
disappointment steal our peace. And he's mishandled, but I love
our God. Our God is a merciful God.
Our God is a forgiving. He didn't say, OK, you blew it.
You've had your chance. That was your last.
That's not what God said. I love when you read Exodus
attention all the way through to Exodus before it says they're
very clear. The Bible says Moses, go back
onto the mountain and here comes this is so beautiful.
I just love this. Go and read it.
It says. I'll write it again.
I'll write it. I'll do that again.
What grace? What mercy.
Watch forgiveness. Same calling, same purpose, same
God. Another chance.
Moses blew it. He brought the stones.
I messed up big time. God says, OK, that's the lost.
God says come back, I'll do it again.
Mercy, forgiveness, Come on. What a God.
Geez, that's what? A word.
Somebody, another chance. So maybe you have mishandled
something in your life. Maybe you have mishandled a
relationship, maybe you've mishandled finances, maybe
you've mishandled marriage. Or maybe an opportunity, maybe a
business opportunity, you've mishandled it.
But God is a God of restoration because God can restore what has
been mishandled. God can make it new.
What you dropped, it's not too far gone.
OK, so what's broken? It's not too broken.
He's still calling. He's still restoring.
He's still the God who makes things brand new.
So the same God who told Moses to go back onto the mountain.
He's the same God who's selling here.
Come back up. Come back up.
Get back up. He's the same God yesterday,
today, and forever, and he's saying the same thing to us
today. Get back up again.
Get ready for another chance. Amen.
Now, sometimes the pain is not about what we did wrong.
Sometimes the pain or the disappointment or the difficulty
comes because there's something that's happened to us.
And you see this in the book of Genesis chapter 3432.
We Gods, he's telling Jacob, he says, listen Jacob, I wanted to
go back home to your land of your father's, take your family,
go back to the your homeland, go back and I will be with you.
Jacob obeyed. Jacob took his family and
started travelling to remember Bethel.
Now Bethel, that is where God changed his name.
And so God changed his name from Jacob to Israel, right?
So Jacob means the, the, the struggler, the sea of that.
That's the name of the past, made mistakes in the past.
Israel is the new name. That's the name of the future,
the name of promise. And so there's a man marked with
promise. He's on a journey.
He's on his way to the promise and something painful happened.
He's in the will of God. He's doing the right thing on
his way to the promise and something painful happened.
And that is life. Sometimes that's what happens in
in life. Sometimes maybe so things happen
and you can be going in the very right direction because here he
is. He's going, he's moving toward
the promise. God said go to your homeland.
He's obeying, God is on his way. And what happened?
Something painful. Rachel died.
The one he loved died painful. And so that is a very hard,
difficult moment for him. And life is like that.
You can be doing the very the right thing.
You can be following God. You can be obeying God on your
way to promise, doing the very right thing.
But then something very painful happens.
Life happens. Difficulty challenges happen.
Something heartbreaking happens. A door closes, a relationship
failure, a breakdown, loss of a loved one.
I'm putting powers away. Something happened that
unexpected, never expected and it knocks you down.
And the Bible says that Jacob buried Rachel and he marked the
place and he wept bitterly. He weave grief.
That's now, that's grief, that's pain.
Now. God never rebuked him for
grieving because grieving is not weakness.
Grieving is grieving over his wife, his loved one that died.
That's human. That's that's good.
I mean, he was grieved and God never obeys, OK.
And so here he was grieving in the moment marked it.
Grieving means that you love deeply.
That's when we grieve when somebody passed away at the
grave. And so there's a time to mourn.
There's a time to weep. There's a time to grieve, but
then there is a time to heal because yet becomes dangerous
when a painful season becomes a permanent location, that's
dangerous, OK, So yes, there's time for mourning and weeping
and but when a painful season becomes a permanent location,
that's where people get stuck, OK, because they start living
there. And the Bible says very, very
powerfully, and I want you to get hold of this, it says that
he turn it on, but he specifically says Israel
journeyed on. No, Jacob journeyed on, OK,
because Israel, Jacob journeyed on.
Jacob means the pain Israel that represents the moving on.
You see what I'm getting? So that's the difference between
Jacob and Israel. I want you to stay with me
because how the 2 represents 1. So the the Jacob represents the
pain. That's the human nature, That's
the pain. But then the Israel represents
the promise. So the Jacob, that's the loss.
But Israel, that's the moving on, that's the destiny, the
future. You see the difference between
the one, OK, so the one is the lost and the one is the moving.
And that is why you cannot just stay in Jacob only.
I want you to get this, because you cannot just stay in the
grieving and in the, in that place, the human part only.
You have got to let Israel arise.
I want to say that again. You have got to let Israel rise
up in you. Come on.
There's two natures. I want you to understand this.
There's the Jacob nature and the Israel nature.
The one is pain and the one is lost.
But you cannot stay stuck in Jacob.
You have got to stay with Israel, the destiny, the
promise, OK. And so that's why you have got
to let the purpose speaks louder than the pain.
OK, So you've got to let the promise, the estrol part in you
has got to be louder than the grief, the Jacob, the pain.
You understand that what I'm saying?
So yes, feel it. It's hard, it's difficult.
Feel it. We've got emotions, Judge, feel
it. Cry, moan, but don't stay there.
Come on, somebody, it's natural on the phone.
I'm talking to a family member. It's horrible.
It's hard. I'm crying, I'm sin tears, but
this indeed you don't stay there.
The loss may be real. Yes, my nephew so and so passed
away that so but it cannot become your location and that is
faith. Faith is I may be down, but I'm
not staying down. Amen.
Now let me close with one more. Jesus told this amazing story
about the prodigal son who received the inheritance from
the father. And he wasted it, OK with poor
choices, wrong decisions, OK, wrong direction.
And he wasted what has been trusted to.
He lost it. What his dad gave him that he
was really supposed to protect. And there he is.
He's empty, he's broken, he's ashamed.
He's there in the big pen, He's lost everything.
He's inheritance. It's all gone.
And there he sets, ashamed and empty.
But here comes the turning point because he's he's really down.
He's low. I mean, he's at a low point and
he's just living really below and beneath what he really,
really was. But now when this turning point
is powerful and I saw this as amazing.
So look 50. It's amazing the turning point.
And the turning point came when he said I will get up.
I read it in this version. I think this is beautiful.
Verse Luke 15. Verse 17.
Then he came to so I said, how many of my cells of my father
have enough food despair, but I am I'm perishing dying year of
hunger. Verse 18 I will get up.
No, this is your world choice in grand, your own nation.
I will. I've got to get up.
No matter what situation, no matter what difficulty, what
trouble, what situation, I will gain up.
That's the turning point. But turning point I will get.
Listen. Not when he said that it was
not, not when everything looked perfect, not when everything
looked better. When I've cleaned myself up and
I'm out of the big pen. When everything's fine and not,
no, it's still in the mess is I will get up.
I will arrive, so I'll go to my father.
Those words are powerful. I'll go back to my father.
This is the translation. He says here I will arrive, so
I'll go to my father. And so that is where the turn
around started. That's I love that because
that's where the miracle started when he made-up his mind,
made-up his mind came to himself and said, listen, I'm making
this decision. I'm getting up.
I've had enough of this pigs. I've got enough of this
struggling. I've had enough of this
addiction, this change of this, I've had enough of it.
I'm getting up. I'm taking a rightfully belongs
to me and listen, he's he's still in a mess.
He's lost everything. He's he's still far away from
home, full of shame, full of empty.
But when he turned back towards home, the Bible says, and I love
this, The Father ran. The Father Hallelujah, mercy
meeting on the road. The father ran not close eyes,
open arms. The Father ran Hallelujah, the
father ran and so mercy ran and you know I love it.
There was a father didn't just stand back with his arms.
Father, he says, you know, come back later when you've cleaned
yourself up, go on your way back in his house.
Go and get short yourself out. No, the father ran, love ran,
mercy ran forgiven love heart. That's how God is towards us.
He's like that towards you. The moment you say I will get
up, your father comes on the scene.
When you make that decision in that moment of time and you come
to a place and you make up your mind and you say I will get up,
I will arise. Your father comes and he says
get the best robe, get the best robe.
The robe that says you are still loved.
You are still loved. Get the robe.
Get the robe of honour, the robe of favour.
You are still out. You are still mine.
OK, I know you've missed that. I know all these things.
Listen, I still love you, my son.
Welcome home. That's how God is.
Bring the best robe and he reminds you and he restores you
of your identity. This is who you are.
He restores you. He clothes you, He places you.
That's our Father, not pointing finger.
So listen, those mistakes did not cancel your destiny.
Whether you feel like the man has been sitting at the pool at
the face door, staring at the same night for 38.
Whether you feel like that. Or maybe you feel like pulling
the dirt, or like Moses with the broken tablets.
Maybe you feel like Jacob had a grave.
Maybe you feel like the prodigal son coming home, feeling ancient
in shade. Whether you feel like the word
of God is still the same, He still says get up.
That's the word of the Lord. Get up out of fear, get up out
of disappointment, out of regrets, out of shine.
Get out out of that delay. Just get out of it.
Get up out of it. And you know you may be done,
but you're not staying down. I'm declaring and prophesying
that over your life you may be done.
You're not staying down. And that's what Micah said to us
right at the beginning. Micah said when I fall, I will
arise. So doubt is not your final
destination. Your story is not over because
there is still life in you. There is still strength in you.
There's still resurrection power.
There's still fire in you, purpose in you.
There's destiny in you. Hallelujah, somebody, these
resurrection clouds. So you're not going under.
You are getting ready to rise. I said you are getting ready to
rise and this is it. I'm closing with us.
This is your rise up moments. This is your get up moments.
Yeah, this is your comeback moment.
This is your time to bounce back like that.
Basketball bounces the table thought he could bounce into the
ground, but the harder he threw you into the ground, the higher
you bounce back. Oh my goodness.
When we swim in the sea, when we on those waves and I'm on that
Peach ball and I'm trying to put that ball under the water, that
thing just bounce and pops right back up.
The same with one of us, all of us, we bouncing back, we
bouncing back. This is your bounce back moment.
This is your comeback moment. Tyson was knocked out, but he
was knocked. He was knocked down, but not
knocked out. He got back up again, like those
boxes when they get back up again, like our kids, they get
back up again after the fall. We are getting back up again
today. So I want you to, if you believe
this, stand to your feet. If this is your word today, give
the Lords a shout of praise. Church, come on, give him some
praise. Give him the Holy Spirit is
moving in this place. So right now, I believe this is
your get up moment. You've been down, down in your
mind, down in depression, anxiety and fear and
disappointment and shame under the weight of what has happened
to you. Listen, I'm here with the word
of the Lord today. Heaven is calling you Jesus.
He's standing in front of every man, every regret, every shame,
every addiction, every situation, whatever situation
you found. And Jesus is standing there with
your power and the authority from heaven.
And he's speaking to every person, every heart in this
place right now. And he's saying get up, get up.
It's no more pity parties, no more excuses, no more listen.
It's time to get up and shine and be who we are supposed to
be. Hallelujah.
And so this is your momentous to get up out of heaviness, get out
of depression and shame and fear.
And if this word is for you, if you are saying listen, past the
years I've been carrying shame and fear and disappointment,
this is my word. I have been done.
If you are here in this place right now and you say, pastor, I
am ready to get up, put your hand up.
Put your hand, raise your yes, I'm ready to get up.
Yes, I'm ready to rise. I'm ready to rise.
I'm ready to get up. If that is you, lift both hands
all across this place right now. This is your moment, Father, in
the name of Jesus, I pray for every person with their hands
lifted right now. Every very hard brings strength,
every wound bring healing, every discouraged mind release peace.
Every person who's been stuck on that mat for a long time, bring
resurrection power. Bring resurrection life flow.
Lord, breathe on that situation. In the name of Jesus, I pray
lift them up, Lord, from the mat, from the difficulty, from
whatever they've been stuck in for years.
Jesus, we thank you for your word that you restore them, that
you revive them. Let joy rise, let strength rise.
Let faith rise and courage right.
Bring strength, Lord. And I thank you, Lord, that what
was knocked down is rising again.
When somebody has been knocked down and feeling low and down,
Lord, I pray right now, rise them up.
What was dry is living again. Let those dead things come alive
in their lives in the name of Jesus.
And what was weak, Lord, let it be strengthened again.
What was broken? Let it be restored in the name
of Jesus. Now let every chain break in the
name of Jesus. Break every chain, every
addiction, every bondage, every fear, every doubt, lose your
grip. Every lie of the enemy I command
you, lose your grip. Take your hands off God's
people, you devil, you're a defeated foe.
In the name of Jesus is more than you.
Jesus is glorious. Jesus rose again and because.
Jesus was resurrected. He's resurrected his people
right here today in the mighty name of Jesus.
Thank you, Lord, that this is not the end of this story, but
this is a turning .0 Lord, that this is a combat moment for your
people where they rise again in the mighty name of Jesus.
Now somebody, if you believe they give God some praise, give
him some praise. Show.