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Now enjoyed this message. So this morning I want to go
over to Matthew 11 and verse 12. Matthew 11 and verse 12.
And talking about the kingdom of God.
Hallelujah. So, let me put my glasses on.
So that we can go. So this dropped in my spirit
actually, in a different format of what he had spoken to me, a
few weeks ago, when I went to North Carolina and ministered at
the Women's Conference with pastors, Anna, and Josh,
Gresham. And there's about 225 women
there and the Lord dropped in my spirit, a word for them.
Because the conference, Was about going, bold going, bold.
And so when the Lord taught to me this week about ministering,
he said, I want you to administer that to your people,
and but I've got a few other little twist to it.
So, this is not exactly how it came out when we were in North
Carolina. But it is what the word of the
Lord dropped in my spirit. And I believe, is pertinent for
where we're at. Rat in the Earth today and what
we need to recognize and what we need to know as balita Believers
as Kingdom citizens. Amen.
So Matthew 11 verse 12 says this, and from the days of John
the Baptist, until now the Kingdom of Heaven, suffers
violence, and the violent. Take it by force the violent.
Take it by force. So here he's, we see that.
The back. This was the Forerunner for
Jesus when he came to the Earth, right?
As the suffering servant and John the Baptist, we know he was
little crazy. What knee?
I mean he had a you know clothes made out of camel hair and are
skinned whatever you call it and you know eight wild locusts.
Come on in the wilderness. - he was a little cray but but we
know that Jesus considered him the greatest Prophet, the
greatest prophet, and why is that?
Because he was a forerunner for him.
He saw he saw Old Testament coming to, he was the one right
there in the middle. Bringing it all together.
Okay, so John the Baptist he was something else well you know,
the Lord had spoken to us through prayer years ago,
probably eight years ago now that this church would be a
church like John the Baptist that would be a forerunner for
his return. For the return actually of the
king and John was They are preparing a way for Jesus to
come as the suffering servant as the savior of the world.
John the Baptist was, there getting everybody saved and
getting everybody, what saved and to repent And but he said to
us in the spirit years ago about our church is that we're going
to be the Forerunner for the Kings return.
So we've got to get people prepared for the kingdom.
Because we're not in a religion. No we are participants of God's
kingdom, when we get born again, amen.
And when you realize that this things about a real Kingdom,
then you have to match, you know, come to the conclusion
that there's some things going on in the kingdom of God, that
is not just religion. Okay, it's not just religion and
so he let us know that by the spirit that that is what we were
going to do is be a forerunner, but you see here, it says the
kingdom of Hub of Heaven, suffereth violence and the
violent take it by force. That means that the kingdom if
you are going to receive all that the kingdom has for you,
the fullness as Pastor April, had option to share about from
the, if you are going to operate in the fullness of Christ, in
the fullness of what the kingdom has to offer you, then you are
going to have to take it by force because it's not gonna
come by us. Moses.
It's not gonna come by just checking off the box and
attending church. It's not gonna come just because
you're born again. Know, when you look at that word
violent, take it by forth. It means you have got to put
effort to it. There is a press.
It says the violent, take it by forth.
They press into Into it, they put much effort into the kingdom
of God. They it is a intense force that
you are told to do this thing. It's vehement earnestness.
That means that there is something that we must do.
We're not going to get it by just being complacent
Christians. Passive Christians.
We're not going to receive all that God has for us.
If we have that mentality or that attitude, we're gonna have
to take We're going to have to take it by force.
We're going to have to press in, put some effort into it so that
we can actually attain to the fullness actually.
Pastor might read that scripture out of Ephesians talking about
he gave Apostles prophets pastors teachers for what the
equipping of the Saints and then you go on down to the end of it,
read it for yourself. And it says, so that we can all
attain to the fullness of Christ, all of us together.
God wants all of us to attain to this fullness in the body of
Christ. But we're going to have to put
effort into it and all the more as the day draws near when
everything is trying to Snuff out any form of God.
Any form of godliness. It's trying to be snuffed out.
It's snuffed out in schools, it's knocked out in government.
Come on, any, any form of society, that's trying to it's
snuffed out in Hollywood. I mean, you know, they're on
that. What is that?
Woke list? Or I don't even know whatever
it's called nowadays. You know, people are being, you
know, Hollywood stars are being, you know, push.
Back and not being part of the group anymore.
If they have any other type of voice, Cancel culture, all these
things. I mean I don't have time I'm
sure y'all know more about it than me.
I don't have time to sit there and worry about what everything
else is going on, and what's the proper terminology?
But I'm not a fool. I know what's happening in the
world, right? And in our society.
So he lets us know that listen if we are going to enter into
the kingdom and receive everything that the kingdom has,
we're going to have to do it by force.
We're going to have to put some intense effort, right?
And earnestness to it. Nothing about the kingdom of God
was weak. When Jesus walked the Earth
listen he was pressing and pushing back Darkness, he was
pressing and pushing back, religious people, Pharisees
scrum, he listened everything he was doing when he was in the
Earth was Authority in manifestation to push back.
That darkness and now is the time that we must be as Kingdom
citizens in the earth. Pushing back.
Darkness pushing back. Don't let listen don't let that
push. You push back.
Push em back push them back. What I think I said that
Wednesday night, we're supposed to push them back not like what
the Gators did this weekend? I was really not.
Want to tell pastor that his Gators were demolished and less
than and and Georgia left no doubt.
Georgia left. No doubt, you know.
Anyway, push them back football, right?
I was a cheerleader. A little bit in my life when I
was like little then I couldn't do a cartwheel and I couldn't
get on the JV team. I mean, there's just something
about trying to stand on your head.
I don't get it. I mean, like, why do I want to
flip upside down? It just freaks me out.
Anyway, I got the most Spirit award, but they wouldn't let me
come on the team because I just couldn't do a cartwheel.
I don't know. You want me cheering you on,
that's what I know. That's what I've tried to do.
Here people. It's cheer Kingdom citizens, on,
come on that we could push back. Come on and that we can boldly
walk into our Authority, that God's given us in the earth
glory to God. So the definition, or the Not
the definition, the acronym that God dropped in my spirit for the
Women's Conference for gold. Go bold is lesson that go means
action. So, we need to have some action
to what we're doing for the kingdom of God, you know, we all
we know this that he said that we are to go into what, all the
world, all the world, and not just different parts of the
world, but in your world of influence, right?
We're supposed to go and we're supposed to be bold and push
back darkness. And we are supposed to take what
God God has given us and share to the world.
So it also means advancement to go means advancement and we know
our slogan here is what always advancing our we always
advancing, are you always advancing?
Are you just sitting on your laurels so to speak, right?
Being complacent, being a passive Christian, just sitting
there, expecting. I'm blessed.
My for blessed, and I don't want to cause any more problems.
That's not going to get you the fullness.
It's not going to get you into the fullness of what God has for
your life. Amen.
So if we're going to go bold, we're going to have to go
forward move forward, and what God is wanting us to do
individually in our life spiritually, right?
And then also coming together corporately with an advancement
or of movement for the kingdom of God, in our city, around our
nation and across the world. Amen.
We're going Have to have Movement.
We have to go. We have to advance to the next
thing that God needs us to do. And it's not gonna just be easy.
So when he said, go bold, he dropped in my spirit and
accurate. Listen, I don't normally get
this acronyms and all these things.
And, to be honest, as I shared with the ladies, I was too much
taking care. Giving pastors mother 24 hours a
day and I Just the week before it was like a couple of days
before I think it was Monday. I was flying out on a Thursday.
I went for a walk because I have not had a spare moment of time
and I just said, Lord I just have not, I have not been
slothful on purpose and not studied and not tried to be
sensitive to what you want me to give to these women.
They're asking me to come speak but I'm telling you Lord, I just
need your supply. I need Grace.
I mean I don't know. What you want me to share with
these ladies and I don't like to go places.
Unless I know that I know I've heard from the Lord, there's
plenty of messages I could speak, but I want to know what
he wants by the spirit for impartation into their lives and
ice, and I just said the word, the, you know, their their title
is go bold, and all of a sudden Bowl drop down.
In my spirit and I think they have it on the screen.
Bold, it's going to be in big bold letters.
On the screen, there it is. And he said this if we are going
to advance if we're going to move forward, if we are going to
do what God needs us to do than we are going to have to believe
the opposite and loudly declare. We're going to have to believe
the opposite and loudly declare because anything that the Lord
needs for us to do in this hour that we're living.
Listen, we are going to have to believe.
We're going to have to have faith.
Isn't that what pastor had been ministering on several weeks
ago? We're going to have to be people
of faith and leave. No doubt.
And with, if we're going to go in advance and do some things
God's boldly calling us to do to step out like no man's known
before, right? Then we're going to have to
believe God, we're going to have to step out on faith.
It's not always going to be pretty, it's not always going to
be lined out, it's not always gonna be right there.
No, we're going to have to step out of the boat by faith and
believe God. Amen.
But then we're going to have to What believe the opposite
because the minute you go on and go bold and step out on
something, you know, the Lord needs you to do.
There's going to be opposition from who the liar, the God of
this world. Amen.
He's always going to tell you. You can't.
You shouldn't. And how a fool, what a fool.
You're gonna look like if you do it and you miss it.
And why even try to believe God, cause you really don't know what
you're doing anyway. Way, so you're going to have to
believe the opposite of what the devil is saying to you.
Amen. So this kingdom is a kingdom of
boldness. And then what are we going to
have to do? We're going to have to loudly
declare. That means it's time that we
open up our mouths as Believers, quit sitting there with your
mouth shut. I know one Minister said you
cannot fight your giant with your mouth shut.
You can't fight your giant. You can't fight the devil with
your mouth. Shut, you can't beat a salt with
a thought. Hallelujah, because faith is
activated by what we speak. We Believe, therefore, we speak.
And so, in this day and in this hour, when the world is trying
to shut us up, we need to recognize.
We are Of a kingdom that is a kingdom of boldness.
Hallelujah boldness. And we've got to put some effort
into what it is that God is saying to us.
Our kingdom is a kingdom. That was never to be a kingdom.
That just is whatever quesarasara know.
God's kingdom is intentional. There is a purpose and there is
a plan of why we, every individual is Here and a part of
it. He chose us.
He chose us out of darkness and brought us into His Marvelous
Kingdom to discover the plan and the purpose that he has for our
lives. Amen.
And we're going to have to recognize this kingdom is a
kingdom that cannot be shaken. You know, I was thinking about
that everywhere. I looked in scriptures about his
kingdom, his kingdom is a powerful Kingdom.
But not only that, he left every weapon that we would need to be
able to overcome and overthrow the enemy in anything in every
situation. So this is not a weak Little
Kingdom that we're a part of. It's only week.
If you're a part of Christianity and religion, Okay.
Why do I know this first Timothy 6:12 says this that there's a
fight that we have to fight. It's the good fight of what
faith. We have to make sure that we are
keeping our faith activated activated in the fight.
Fight the good fight of Faith. What does he say?
Take whole. There's that word.
Again, that's something that we must do.
We must take hold of eternal life.
Which you were called and to make the good confession in the
presence of many witnesses. So, the kingdom of God, it
sounds like, wow, the kingdom, maybe a little violent and he's
even promoting fighting. But this is a good fight, right?
Because our battle is not against what flesh and blood
This is a good fight, but there's some things that we have
to activate. I don't know about you, but I'm
not going to stand in a fight and not defend myself.
And not defend myself. Now, you know, he did say if
someone hits you, right, turn the other cheek, right?
But, you know, you can defend yourself and not have to lay a
finger. Right.
Because you know where it comes from amen.
Hallelujah. So we're going to have to
believe the opposite of what the enemy is telling us and loudly
declare what God has said about us.
Now, let me read psalms 138, I want to just read a couple of
scriptures about what he says about people that are in his
kingdom, okay? Psalms 1 38 3, says in the day
when I cried out to you, you answered me.
And you what made me bold with strength in my soul, you made me
bold, guess what? God has made every believer.
That's a part of his kingdom, bold.
So you don't have to say, well, I'm just not that personality.
I'm not this personality, but I have the mind of Christ.
And I've been I've learned to trust him and do.
Do the things that God's asking me to do and walk by faith.
Come on and be a voice in this dark world.
Amen. So he says, I have made you
bold, he didn't make not one person in the Kingdom week,
passive. We all have different
personalities but you can still have a bold spirit because that
is the character of God. Our God is what bold?
He's bold. His character is bold, read
Proverbs, 28 1, the wicked flee when no one pursues him but the
righteous are what bold as a lion The righteous are bold as a
lion, so he made us bold. He lets us know that when we get
in right alignment with his kingdom, in a place of
righteousness than we can be bold as a lion.
Hallelujah, Ephesians 3 12, let's read it.
It says, when you get this is to Believers Ephesians, right?
It says, in whom we have what boldness, and confident access
through faith in him. I watched we get born again, you
can see. Boldness is a part of our
makeup. That's my new DNA, you know,
everybody wants to talk about, you know.
Well, you know, my DNA is, you know, the blood of Jesus.
And but let's look at the character of who he is.
Let's look at the character as well.
My DNA is, is it a bold and, and confident there's a difference
between being bold and confident and arrogance, arrogance comes
from self boldness. Come on and confidence comes
from the Lord. You know, Pastor talked about
these last couple of weeks. Eliminating self eliminating
self, I love what John said. This is just a side note.
He said I must what decrease so that he can increase when we
deal with self and we get rid of our selfishness and things that
we are trying to do, then we can actually operate in authority
and that boldness with confidence and it's Gonna be an
arrogance. There's a difference between
boldness and an arrogant spirit. Okay.
Now religious all religious religious, people always call it
arrogance. Anyway, I'll move on acts 4:13
says this. So here he lets us know in
Ephesians that we have boldness and confidence through him.
And then he lets us know that some of his disciples had that
same boldness and acts 14 13. It says now when they saw the
boldness of who Peter and John and perceived that they were
unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled and they Knowledge of
them that they had been with what Jesus.
Hallelujah, that they had been with Jesus.
So if they had been with Jesus there, rubbing off.
If we've been made in His image, come on in his likeness, then
there ought to be a boldness in our spirit.
A boldness in this day I'm telling you we're going to have
to be bold. Now, let's look at John 8:44, I
quoted this but I want to move on into the message.
John 8:44 says this, you are of the father of your father, the
devil so many churches today are so scared still to talk about
that. There's a real devil.
And that he is actually the God of this world and orchestrating
through people yielded to him. That are not born again.
Amen. Doing his bidding in all kinds
of sectors of society, This is how he functions, this is how he
operates it says. And you want to do the desires
of your father, he is a murderer from the beginning and he does
not stand in truth. There is no truth in him
whenever he speaks, he speaks a lie and he speaks speaks from
his own nature for he is a liar. Liar.
And a, what Father of Lies. So I'm gonna let you know that
any time you begin to step out on something that the Lord's
wanting you to do, whether it be, you know, you need to go to
another place spiritually in Christ or whatever it is, you
stepping out because he's asking you to do something, you've
never done before. You're in the unknown, the
devil's always going to be right there lying and saying you can't
do it. And you know what, I've learned,
I've learned that anything I hear he says, I can't do I know.
And I am assured that I can do it.
We the Bible says and I don't have the scripture wrote down,
we don't have to be ignorant of the devil's devices and one of
his major devices and probably the most prominent and the most
use of his devices is to just simply tell you a lie.
And that's simply what he did with Adam and Eve in the garden.
God said you shouldn't eat the fruit but what And the devil
said, will you surely won't die? Right, one lie, one lie.
So anything that you're hearing, whether it be your reading, the
word. And the Lord says, you know
what, you really need to deal with this situation in your
life, you know, you're you're you're just disrespecting your
husband or dishonoring your husband and I'm ready to help
tweak you so that your marriage can be better.
Well then the devil's come. I know what he says because I
had to deal with this. I mean who does he think he is?
I mean, I'm not ever going to submit to a man.
I was taught don't ever submit to a man.
So, I had a choice. Was I going to what?
Believe the opposite and loudly declare what the word said about
what I'm supposed to do. And I couldn't just think about
it. No, there had to be Action
behind it. And there had to be my mouth
behind it. Amen.
Cuz you can't beat a thought with a thought.
You just can't it won't work. And that's why so many people
are still being defeated because they're trying to think their
way out of it. And you can't know you what's
on, the inside. Must be released and activated
for that to be moved and to work.
Amen. So how do I know this?
Because of the temptation of Christ in Matthew 4 in Matthew
4. We know.
Well, what was great. I was reading out of Matthew and
and looking over about John the Baptist and and everything about
his life and then reading about how he went baptized Jesus in
the Jordan and and the heavens opened up and you know, father
said, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased.
And then it said in immediately, He was what led by the spirit
Into the Wilderness in Matthew 4, Into the Wilderness to be
tempted of the devil. So immediately he's going in to
the Wilderness led by the spirit to be tempted.
And what do we know how he over cam, right?
He said it is written. Now could Jesus just you know by
osmosis think this he's God, right?
No. It said he said and when you
looked at up said that means he verbally.
Spoke it is written. It is written.
And every time the devil would come back with a thought or with
something, he was trying to tell him.
What did he do? He opened up his mouth again and
he said it is written. So if we are going to write
operate in our kingdom Authority, then we're going to
have to open up our mouths and boldly what declare what the
Lord has said about our Situation.
Right. And we've said this, let me just
go ahead and read this to you and second Corinthians 4:13, but
having the same Spirit of Faith, according to what is written, I
believed, therefore I spoke. We also believe therefore we
what also speak. So what we believe must be
spoken when you came down to the altar to receive Jesus.
As your As your lord, you had to make what a confession with your
mouth. That Jesus Christ is Lord.
You had to say a thing. You had to make a covenant with
your mouth with him. You couldn't just think it.
You couldn't just quote scripture in your head.
Right. You couldn't just let the pastor
pray for you or the person in the altars pray for you know you
had to make a public confession of your faith in Christ.
You had to speak it out what you believed by faith and it's then
and only then did it get activated.
So, our faith must be released through our mouth.
And it Must be activated by what we say.
So anytime the enemy is coming against our marriage.
Coming against our children. Things going on in the world
like economic recession, you've and I said this months ago,
didn't I that you better not fall into the LIE of believing
in your household. There's going to be a recession
and what did we say? We better start speaking.
We have more than enough. We have a full supply for any
good work. No, not in my house.
I'm in Covenant. I'm at either I'm a giver.
Come on. And I'm going to have more than
enough. Just like Joseph did in the year
of famine. Come on any time.
There was anything going on, they had more than enough.
More than enough say I have more than enough.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
So we have to be people that speak out our faith and be bold
about it because the enemy is not going to relent, he's not
going to give up. Right.
He's always there. Actually we know the word devil
means, what? Just that Diablos one, that's
just there's a pound pound pound pound Pound in your mind a
thought trying to get you to take.
Hold of it. Well, you need to earnestly,
take hold of the kingdom of God and say, devil, you need to shut
up and get out because the word of God says that by his stripes
I'm Healed. And so I'm going to walk in
healing. Come on. whatever the Casey says
that we'll have more than enough for every good work that are,
that will have a full Supply You got to start speaking out what
you really believe, that's why I don't understand why people can
come into a service and sing songs and not sing.
Because what we sing is actually words of life and can release an
atmosphere of faith in you. And then you're actually
learning how to declare by singing, what you believe.
Amen. This is called classical
Christian education. Amen.
You get to participate every Sunday and Wednesday.
Right. Cuz how many of you go home?
And then that morning, you wake up and the song you sang for
worship on Sunday was right, is right there.
Listen have you learned how to just tap on into a instead of
having a bad mood on a Monday? Why don't you tap into your
spirit which is singing the song you sang Yesterday from worship
and just start magnifying the Lord and singing that song
instead of singing the song of oh my gosh I got another work.
Oh my gosh I'm tired. That's a song, you sing.
Hallelujah. Y'all, you know when pastors
away? I get his preaching anointing.
Hallelujah. Well, when you sit up
underneath, one of the best Pastors in the world Listen.
And that's not just because I'm married to the man, I'm going to
tell you, I've set up underneath a lot of pastors and preachers
and teachers. And I mean, he's still just one
of the best to me. One of the best breaks down that
word like nobody else. Hallelujah.
Anyway, yeah. So, when he leaves, he's always
like, oh, you just preaching up there.
I said, well, your anointing left and I just stepped right on
in it. Hallelujah, let me read the
scripture. Second Corinthians, y'all doing
all right this morning. Second Corinthians chapter 10
and verse 5 says this, casting down imaginations and every High
thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and
bringing into captivity every thought to The Obedience of
Christ. This is what he's letting us
know that we are a part of a king.
That is a kingdom of boldness. We've been given the character
of God that is bold. Amen.
And listen, when the enemy comes, he comes to our mind to
try to bring in and Imagination to show you a picture of how
you're going to fail. At what it is God's trying to
do. He'll show you a pretty picture,
you know, in your mind and Imagination.
And so what is he? Letting us know.
Listen, we're going to have to bring it into captivity.
This is what we're talking about.
We're going to have to take it by force.
We are going to have to bring it into captivity, God's not going
to do it for us. Jesus is not going to do it for
us, and the Holy Ghost is on the inside saying, do it.
And then we must yield, and take captives those thoughts of the
enemy and then we must boldly declare.
We must believe the opposite of what the enemy saying and loudly
declare. What it is that we know God is
saying. And I'm telling you the day is
Drawing Near, and we are going to have to be people that open
up our mouths. In our houses, in our
situations, come on. We're going to have to open up
our mouths, and begin to walk out what we believe and speak
what we believe. Amen.
And not be shy about it. Not be timid about it, right?
Nowhere in scripture. Did I see in the kingdom of God?
Was this a just a week Kingdom? No, he actually used terms like
this. You're more than a what
conquering means. There's a fight to it.
To conquer. Something means there's a fight
to it. So to conquer thoughts, to
conquer anything that's going on in your life, you know, maybe
you're going through a season where God's trying to purge some
things or prune. Some things.
We talked about that Wednesday night that we're going through
some seasons of change. And in those Seasons I'm telling
you you are going to have to boldly declare what God has
said. Add about your situation and
take it by force, put effort into it and say, I am gonna
overcome this. I am a conqueror, this is no
longer going to keep me bound. I'm no Kong, or gonna walk
around this mountain for 40 more years. 40, more years.
I'm no longer walking around this mountain.
I mean sick and tired. Are you sick and tired of
dealing with some things over and over in here?
And you're I mean just your years of being a Believer.
Well then we're going to have to get violent about it.
And put it where it belongs towards fighting the fight to
say low. I'm going to overcome this, I'm
going to be a conqueror. Amen.
I'm not going to let this conquer me.
I'm going to conquer it once and for all actually going to pull
out my sword of the spirit and actually going to What chop its
head off and say no longer no longer.
Is this going to be a part of my life insecurities, whatever your
past, whatever my Lord. If anybody can get over there
pass, it's me. I did it.
Listen, I can tell you how it's a Process.
Of obeying God in the midst of when you don't want to.
And and yielding to him and saying, okay, Lord I can do
this. Okay, yes, I'm going to trust
you with this. Okay?
I see where that is I'm going to write y because he's always
there trying to perfect us and put us in a place to walk into
the fullness of what it is that God's called you to walk into
amen. Now, let's look at a couple
other things, Ephesians 6, 19 and 20 says this and I pray on
my behalf that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my
mouth. Do you know that this is a
prayer that you can pray? This is the prayer that Paul
prayed. We call these the Pauline
prayers in those Epistles, right?
And we can pray the same prayers now here Paul is praying.
Listen, you know I heard one preacher said if you you know,
talks about how you need to have, Prayer, you're going to
have bold prayers. Why?
Because God expects us to be bold.
Bold prayers have boldness in her life.
It says pray on my behalf that utterance may be given to me in
the opening of my mouth to make known with boldness.
The Mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in
chains that in proclaiming it. I might what speak boldly as I
ought to speak. This is a prayer that every
believer can pray, Father, I want to be bold about,
proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom to all the Earth, people
need to know, come on, that there is a better life.
There is a better way of living, come on and, and, and listen, I
may not be the most eloquent or the most educated and boy, did
Paul say that. No, but what I do know is Christ
crucified come on in him living on the inside of me and I can I
can testify of everything that he's done in my life and I can
do it boldly and I can help people bring them into the same
place and help them walk it out. Hallelujah, but there's an
opening of our mouth that has to happen.
It's time for when you're getting around people.
Now, you know, that when you're talking and carrying on
conversations and trying to witness to people that you, you
know, are led by the spirit and what you're saying.
But I'm going to tell you. I think we've used that as a cop
out that nobody's saying anything anymore.
Well, I didn't feel the let Spirit.
Well if you would just open up your mouth.
Come on. He says you may not know what
you ought to speak but in that moment don't worry about.
It, I'll give it to you. If you just open up your mouth
and begin to share, there's so many people that need to know
about the kingdom of God. Amen.
And he lets us know that we can have boldness in it.
First Thessalonians 2 to says this.
It says, but after we had already suffered and been
ministered in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our
God to speak. To you the gospel of God amid
much opposition. So, even in the midst, do you
know? And I'm not talking about just
now you're asking for boldness when you're around your friends,
but in the midst of opposition, now he lets us know, there can
be some boldness that will rise up boldness.
That can rise up in the midst of opposition.
And I'm going to tell you, there's a lot of opposition
happening today in our society. Come on.
Trying to get people's minds twisted.
And perverted and we must in those moments that we hear some
of this or are able to share about some things.
You must be bold and enough to stand up and say, well, no, I
don't really believe that. I don't think I'm no, I don't
want that. A part of our education.
No. I'm going to stand actually
against it. Right.
We've got to start being bold enough to speak.
What we believe. Hallelujah. because remember he
said that we are the salt of the earth We are here to preserve to
be a support and Pillar of Truth in the earth and to preserve the
truth. Hallelujah.
So I'm telling you, we're going to have to get bold about some
things while we're out and about and we're hearing actually in
first Thessalonians chapter 2 that we just read in the passion
translation. It says this, they were
emboldened in their faith to fearlessly preach.
They were in bolded in their faith.
To fearlessly, preach the gospel.
And I'm going to tell you, we're going to have to have that same
fight about us in the hour that we're living.
We are going to have to be embolden in our faith.
That means we got to know what we believe.
Now, you know, some people don't open up their mouth because they
are come to church every day, but they really don't believe
what's been said or they don't believe it and have revelation
of it for themselves. And so they really We can't
speak because they don't know really what they believe, but,
when you start operating and saying no, I do believe the word
of God. I do believe that the word is
infallible. Word of God.
Hallelujah. I do believe everything that's
written in this word, and I believe everything about it,
then you will be in bold and because you are a person of
faith, not just Faith out there in God.
But you are a person of faith that lives by faith.
Come on that walks by faith. And every decision you make in
your life is by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah, then you'll be bold about what you believe.
I've seen it time and time again.
When I come across people, man, I know they believe that I know
faith is in them. I mean, he just, he said, Paul,
we know he ministered many a times and he could see Faith
among the people, so when you're with people, you could know
whether they're in faith or not or whether they still don't know
where they stand. Amen.
They're still on solid. Right?
They don't have personal revelation of it themselves.
Amen. Hallelujah.
But we must be people. That will boldly declare
Hallelujah. In this day and this our Hebrews
13 6 says this, so that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper
and I will not fear what man shall do to me.
So many? People are afraid of man.
Afraid of what they owe and I'm scared.
They won't like me. Who cares?
Oh, I'm scared. I won't get any followers.
Who cares? All the Jesus's followers left
him. And the disciples even question
you want us to eat your blood and drink or eat your bread body
and drink your blood. You're crazy.
This is what they're thinking. Right.
So we must be people that recognize that the Lord is my
helper and I'm not going to fear, man.
What shall they do to me? They can kill me.
And where will I be in the presence of the Lord?
Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Glory to God. Some of y'all need to get that
revelation. Glory to God, hallelujah.
Second Corinthians 3, 12. Therefore having such a hope we
use great boldness in our speech, when you know who you
trust. You know who you belong to come
on. When, you know that, you know,
that, you know, you are in alignment with everything God
has said in his word and you're striving into that, you know,
fullness that he has for us. Listen.
You can be assured, you can be assured to have a hope and walk
in great. A surety Philippians 1:14 says
this and many of the brethren in the Lord waxing, Confident by my
bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
So here Paul, we know in Philippians 1 was in prison and
he said, listen, even while I'm in prison I'm going to I know
that this suffering is only going to lead me to a more
boldness to speak the gospel. How much, how many of us want to
deal with that? You don't want to have to Ender
any suffering, in our little soft Christianity.
You know, we don't want anybody to have their feathers ruffled
and we don't want to hurt anything going on because we
don't want the persecution, we don't want the slander, we don't
want, listen, we don't want to have to walk through that, but
I'm going to tell you what, if you're actually going to begin
to be bold about what God has said about you and walk some
things out. And actually make a difference
for the kingdom of God and push back Darkness.
You're going to be talked about. You're going to be slandered,
you're going to be persecuted, it just comes with the
territory. He actually said on the servant,
I rejoice and be glad that they're persecuting you, right?
Because that means you're actually doing something for the
kingdom of God. Those that don't ruffle any
feathers and don't have any opposition.
And don't, listen, I have to ask myself.
Well, what are they really doing?
What are they really doing? Hallelujah.
So in in this persecution or in this suffering are in these
things. Listen, if you just stick with
God, you're going to come out, even Bolder.
Why? Because your faith is going to
get stronger, you're going to continue to grow in faith.
Our faith can grow from Faith to Faith.
And what glory to glory? We can walk in.
I want to be like the synturion, just speak the word only come
on. He and he looked at him and
marveled and said, wow, you are one.
What, great faith, whatever your word says, I'm gonna speak it.
I'm gonna declare it. Come on, I'm gonna boldly.
Say it, I'm gonna sing to the top of my lungs.
I'm gonna praise him for the rest of my days, and I'm gonna
boldly declare what God has said in the earth glory to God, glory
to God unrestrained boldness, Unrestrained boldness, acts 429.
And 30. I'm going to close with this
pastor Marcus. I'll can come acts for 29 and 30
and verse 31 and I'm going to read it.
It says now Lord look on their threats and Grant to your
servants that with all what boldness that they would speak
your word, by stretching out your hand to heal and that signs
and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant.
Jesus. When they had prayed, come on,
the place was shaken where they were assembled and they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke the word with boldness.
So the Holy Ghost is bold. And the Holy Ghost is the one in
the earth working through. You help yourself.
Help yourself to some boldness, help yourself to the Holy Ghost,
that's on the inside of you that wants you to be a bold believer
in a bold Christian in the day that we're living in.
Come on, partake of some boldness, partake of some
boldness. He said, so for one reason that
you would be able to speak the word in that something Not did
he say for boldness to actually do Miracles and all these other
things, he said, boldness to speak your word because what at
the faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of God.
And so every time you're bold to speak the word out, then someone
actually then can receive the seed of the word and have faith
put in their heart. Come on.
And then they can actually Slowly begin to operate in it.
But unless we speak it and unless we Proclaim it, it's not
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