As Far As Your Eyes Can See

God [music] smiled. said we >> Oh, okay. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] Heat up >> [music] [music] >> here. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat Heat >> [music] >> up here. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Good morning, church. How are we [music] doing today? Come on, let's stand and worship. Our God is so worthy of everything we can give him this morning. So, come on, let's [music] give him everything. All of our praise. [music] >> Come on, hands up. >> [music] [music] >> This [music] is the day you [singing] made. So I [music] will rejoice and be glad. Rejoice in your glide in this. This [music and singing] is where I believe that you are [music and singing] more than enough. More than enough for me. You are [music] faithful to your [singing] promise. You are strong when [music] I am weak. When I'm standing in your [music] praises, I have everything I need. [music] The joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord [singing] is my strength. [music] The joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is [music] my strength. Oh my soul, bless his name. All [singing and music] that is within me say the joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is my strength. [music] Jesus [music] come. [singing] You are worthy [music] of worthy of all my praise. You [music] are faithful to [singing] your promise. You are strong when I am weak. When I'm standing [music] in your presence, I have everything I [music] need. The joy of the Lord, the joy of [music] the Lord is [singing] my strength. [music] The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord [singing] is my strength. Oh my [music and singing] soul, bless his name. All that is within me is save. The joy [music] of the Lord. The joy of the Lord [singing] is my sh. Let it [music and singing] rise up like a river [singing and music] overflowing. Holy [singing] Spirit, let it pour out with [music] the living overflowing. [singing and music] Holy Spirit, [singing] let it [music] rise up like a river [music] overflowing. [singing] Holy Spirit, [singing and music] let it pour out with [music and singing] overflowing. [music] Holy Spirit [music] Oh, [singing and music] [music] [music and singing] the joy of the Lord. The [music] joy of the Lord [singing] is my strength. The joy of the Lord. The joy of [music] the Lord [singing] is my strength. Oh [music] my soul, bless his [singing] name. All that is me. [music] Oh my soul, bless his name. All that [music and singing] is within me say, "Oh my soul, [music] bless his name." All [singing] that is within me [music] say joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is [music and singing] my sh. Oh. [music] [singing] on my heart. [music] Thank you, Jesus. It's your joy. It's your joy. [music] I've got [music] the joy. I've got the joy. I've got the joy. I've got the joy. It's [music] the joy of the Lord. It's the joy of the Lord. I've got the joy. I've got [music] the joy. I got the joy. It's the joy of the Lord. It's the joy of the Lord. I got the [music] joy. I got the joy. I got the joy. It's the joy of the Lord. It's the joy of the Lord. I got the joy. I got the joy. [music] I got the joy. It's the joy of the Lord. It's the joy of the Lord. I got [music] the joy. I got the joy. I got the joy. It's the joy of the Lord. It's the joy of the Lord. [music] I got the joy. I got the joy. I got the joy. It's the joy of the Lord. It's the joy [music] of the Lord. I got the joy of the joy of the [music] joy of the Lord. It's the joy of the Lord. >> [music] >> Oh, [singing] [music] [music] oh my soul bless his name. All [music] that is within me [singing] say oh my soul bless [music] his name. All that is within me say oh my [music and singing] soul bless his name. All that is within me. [music and singing] The joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is my [music] [singing] [music] thank you Lord. You're so good God. [music] You're so good, Lord. >> Hallelujah. [music] [music] This is my story. I'll testify [music] the blessings [singing] on blessings you poured on my life. I can't stop [music] remembering how good you f [music and singing] to praise chains of depression broken by grace when I [music and singing] start remembering how good you've been. >> Here we go. Yeah. You've been so [music and singing] so so so good to me. You've been so [music] so so [singing] so so good to me. [music] [music and singing] >> Weapons fall to the ground. Armies of heaven always [singing and music] around. When I start remembering how you carried [music] my cross, you called me by name. You love me like [music] I was, but you wouldn't hear me that way. Was there now [music] I guess that's what you [singing] did. [music] Yeah. You feel so so so so [singing] good [music] to me. Yeah. You feel so [singing] so so so [music] good to me. From morning to night, the lows [music and singing] and the highs. I look back on my life and all that I see that you've [music and singing] been so so so so good. to me. [music and singing] Yeah. [music] When I say God is good, you say all the time. [music and singing] When I say all the time, you say God is good. When [music] I say God is good, you say all the time. When I say all the time, you [music] say God is good. When I say God is good, you say all the time. When [music] I say all the time, you say God is good. When I say God is good, you [music] say all the time. When I say all the [singing] time, you say, "God [music] is so so so so so [singing] good to me." [music] You be so so so [singing] so good to [music] me. Morning [singing] tonight. The lows and the highs. I look back [music] on my life and all that I see. the morning tonight. The lows and [music and singing] the highs. I look back my life and all that I see. And you've been so [music and singing] so so so good to me. [singing] [music] You been You so so so [music and singing] so good to me. [music] You've been so so so so [music and singing] good to me. >> You've been You've been You've been [music] so so so [singing] so good to me. >> Yeah. [music] You've been so so so [singing] so good. [music] >> You've been so good. >> [music] >> You're [music] so good, Lord. You're so good. Yes, you are. We invite you in this place [music] right now. >> Come and have your way. Come and [music] have your way [singing] this morning, Lord. Come, Holy [music] Spirit. Oh, there's no one like you, Lord. There's nothing like your presence coming out of your way. You [music] are here [singing] moving in our midst. I worship [music] you. I worship [music] you. You are [singing] here working in [music] this place. I worship you. >> Oh, [music] I worship [singing] you. You are here moving [singing] in [music] our midst. I worship you. [music] I worship [singing] you. You are here working [music] in [singing] this place. I worship [music and singing] you. >> I worship you. >> Come on, sing way maker. will make a [music] miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is [singing and music] who you are. We [music] make a miracle, promise keeper, light in [music] the darkness. My [singing] God, that is who you [music] are. You are [singing] here touching [music] every heart. I worship [singing] you. I worship [music] you. You [singing] are here healing [music] every heart. I worship [singing] you. [music] I worship you. You are [singing] here. Turn [music] your lights around. I worship [singing] you. I worship [music] you. You are here. Manding every [music and singing] heart. I worship you. Oh, I worship [music] you. Oh, you are way [music] maker, miracle worker, promise [singing] keeper, light in [music] the darkness. My God, that is who you are. Oh, you are [music] way maker, miracle, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God. [music] Way [music] maker, miracle work, promising light in [music and singing] the darkness. My God is [music] great. Miracle work light in the darkness. My God, that is [music] who you are. Oh, we sing. That is who you are. That is [music] who you are. Oh, that is who you are. [singing] That is who you are. Oh, that is who you are. >> That is who you are. We worship [music] you. We never [singing] Oh, you're worthy of all our praisees. You make [music] way even when it seems like there's none. [singing] When all seems lost, [music] you make it a way. You make a way. Come on. Even when I don't see it. >> Even when I don't see it, you're [music] working. Even [singing] when I don't feel it, you're never stop. You never stop working. [singing] You never stop. [music] You never stop. Even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when [music] I don't feel it, you're working. You never stop. You never stop working. Never [music] stop working. He even when I don't see it, you're working. Even [music] when I don't feel it, you're working. You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop. You never stop working. Even when I don't see it, you're working. [music] Even when I don't feel it, you're working. [singing] Yes. [music] Yes. [singing] Miracle working promise keep light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. Oh, [music] we worship you. Miracle Pro [music] in [singing] the darkness. My God, that is who you are. >> Oh, that [music] is who you are. That is who you are. Oh, that [music] is who you are. That is [singing] who you are. [music] That is who you are. Come on, church. Give it worship by [music] now. [singing] He's worthy of all we could. [music] He's worthy of all we can get. [music] God, you're so good. No one else can make a way [music] like you make a way. No one else can heal me like you do. No one else can save me like you do. You take care of everything. So right now I'll give you my worship. [music] I'll give you my worship. You're beautiful lordship. You're wonderful God. I worship you. You can have my [music] whole life. You can have everything. [music] Yes. You are way maker, miracle work, promise keeper, [music] light in the darkness. My God, that [singing] is who you are. Oh, you are you are way maker, miracle worker, promise [music] keeper, light [singing] in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. >> That is who [music] you are. That is [singing] who you are. >> Who you are. [singing] That [music] is who you are. Hallelujah. 1 2 I [music and singing] could sing your name for all my life [music] and still find [singing] more to love each time. [music] >> Jesus be the name ever on my [singing] list. So Jesus, every time that [music and singing] I call on it, there's just something about your name. [music] There's just something [singing] about your name. There's just [music] something about your name that makes [singing] me cry. Holy. There is no other name. There is no other name. There [music] is no other name. [singing] Jesus, you're worthy. [music] >> You have [singing] been the [music] friend who never left. I won't [music and singing] forget your faithfulness. Jesus be [music] the name [singing] ever on my lips. [music] >> Sweeter [singing] every time that I call on it. There's [music] just something about your [singing] name. >> There's just something about your name. >> [music] >> There's just something about your name that makes [music] me cry holy. There is no other name. There is no [music and singing] other name. There is no other name. Oh [music and singing] Jesus, you're worthy. There's just something [music] about your name. There's just something about your name. There's just something [music] about your name that makes me cry holy. There is no other [music and singing] name. There is no other name. There is [music] no other name. Jesus, you're worthy. Oh, [music and singing] come on. Take a minute, church, to worship [music] him. He's worthy [singing] of all of our praise. [music] He's worthy [singing] of all of our praise. [music] He's worthy of all of our praise. [music] Jesus, your name is like the morning light. The one [music and singing] the darkness can the resurrection [music] and the life. Jesus. [singing] Jesus, your name can save. [music and singing] Your name can heal. Your name can make the stormy [music] be still. You never fail. You [singing] never will. Jesus. [music] Jesus your bread alive who come for us. [music] The world [singing] the worthy one the first [music] and last still [singing] to come. Jesus. Jesus the [music] king will bring the Lord who will forever [music] Jesus. Jesus be the name. Jesus be [music] the name. Jesus be the name that gets [music and singing] all the glory. Jesus [music] be the name. Jesus be the name. [music] Jesus be the name that gets all [singing] the glory. [music] Oh [music] Jesus. [music and singing] We [music] worship. [music] Jesus be the name. [music] Jesus be the name. [music] Jesus be the name who gets all the glory. Oh Jesus be [music] the name. Jesus be the king. [music] Oh [singing] Jesus be the king who gets all [music] the glory. Oh come and have your way Jesus. [music] Oh, the only name [music] that he only [music] Jesus [music] Jesus [music] be the name. Jesus be the name. Jesus name. [music] >> Jesus be the name. [music] Jesus be the name. Jesus be the name [music] that gets all the glory. [singing] >> All glory to you. Jesus be the name. Jesus be the name. [music] Jesus be the name that gets [singing] all the glory. [music] >> Jesus be the name. Jesus be the name. Jesus be the name that gets [music and singing] all the glory. >> Caling in your name. The ceiling in your name. >> The ceiling in your name [music] makes me cry. Holy. [singing] >> There's [music] freedom in your name. There's freedom in your name. [music and singing] There's freedom in your name. It makes me [music and singing] cry holy. Salvation in your name. Salvation [music and singing] in your name. Salvation in your name. [music] Makes me cry holy. [singing] So [music] Jesus be the name. >> Jesus be the name. [singing] >> Jesus be the name [music] that gets all the glory. >> Show me your glory. [singing] Show me your glory. Show me your glory. [music and singing] Show [music] me [singing] your glory. [music] Take a moment to invite the Holy Spirit. Oh, [music] we want to see [singing] your glory. We want to touch from heaven this morning. Send us out changed. [singing] Send us out made whole. [music] Show me [singing] your glory. Show me your glory. [singing] [music] Show me your glory. [music and singing] Oh, show me your glory. [singing] I long to look on the [music and singing] face of the one that I love. Long to stay in your presence where I belong. [music] Long to look on your face of the [singing] one that I love. [music] Long to stay your where I [music] belong. Long to [singing] look on the face of [music] the one that I love. Long to stay in your [music] place. It's where I belong. Long to love. On the face of the one that I love. long to stay in [music] your [singing] presence is where I belong. [music] [music] It's where I belong. [music] It's where I belong. is where I belong. >> So, show me your glory. [singing] Come on, you sing as a prayer. >> Show me your glory. [music] >> God, we invite you right now. >> Show me your glory. [music and singing] Come and show us your glory, Lord. >> Show [music] me your glory. [music] >> Show us your glory. [singing] Show us [music and singing] your glory. [music] Show us [singing] your glory. Show us your glory. [music] >> Freedom rains in this place. Showers of mercy and grace falling on every face. There is freom. [music] >> Freedom reigns in [singing] this place. >> [music] >> Showers of mercy and grace [singing] falling on every face. Well, there is freedom. God sending freedom this morning with the spirit of the [singing] Lord [music] is. There is [singing] freom [music] in your situation where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. [music and singing] So right now lift your eyes. [music] Lift your eyes [singing] to heaven. There is freedom. Lift your eyes to heaven. [singing] Well, [music] there [singing] is freedom. Freom. [music] Freedom [singing] reigns in this place. Showers [singing] of [music] mercy and grace falling [music and singing] on every face. There is freedom. Do you know [music] what church? Jesus reigns in this place. Sing Jesus reigns. >> Jesus [singing] reigns in this place. Showers of [music and singing] mercy and grace falling [music] [singing] on every face. >> There is freedom. >> One more time. Jesus reigns [music] in this place. >> Jesus reigns [singing] in this place. Showers of mercy and [singing and music] grace >> falling [singing] on every face. >> There is [music] freom. >> Jesus waits. [music] >> [music] >> Showers of mercy and grace >> falling on every face. >> There is grace >> this morning. We thank God for his grace and his mercies upon us as children of God. Oh, we are grateful to be able to come into God's presence unashamed, uninterrupted. Oh, we thank God for the great access, the assets he's given to us to be called the children of God. Oh, I just want us to thank God. Thank God for giving us that great access to be able to have access to the father that every time we come to him, he blesses. Every time we come to him, he gives us a word. Every time we come to him, we can worship. Lifting up our hands. Lord, [music] we thank you. Lord, we don't take this assess for granted. Oh, we don't take your presence for granted. Oh, we thank you. We thank you for your son. We thank you for sending your son to die for us. We thank you for the GREAT SACRIFICE. WE THANK YOU because indeed we come into your PRESENCE UNASHAMED. UNASHAMED. LORD, we are grateful. Oh father, we thank you. Oh, this morning as a church and as a family, we have come to lift up our voice to say thank you. Lord, we worship you. As a father, we say thank you. Lord, we give you praise. Father, we thank you. With a grateful heart, we come to say, Lord, we adore you. With a grateful heart, we've come to say, Lord, we [music] give you praise. Father, we thank you. Because we know that if it has not been for you on our side, Father, we give you thanks. [music] Lord, we worship you, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, oh Adonai. Father, we bless your name, Lord. We give you praise for who you are, your greatness. Oh, we thank you, Lord. We thank you for this marvelous access that we have to come into your presence to worship at your feet. Father, we bless your name. Lord, we thank you. Oh, we've come with a grateful heart. Lord, WE WORSHIP YOU. FATHER, we thank you. Oh, Lord, we bless your name. [music] Lord, we thank you. Lord, we are thankful. Father, we are thankful. We don't take this time we have with you for granted. Lord, we bless your name. Father, we worship. We thank you. We bow down to say thank you. We bow down to say indeed you are the greatest father. We thank you for who you are to us. We thank you for each day revealing another angle of yourself to us. Oh Lord, we bless your name. Father, we just want to say thank you. If all we will do this morning is to say thank you. If all we will raise our voice to say today is thank you. Father, we thank you. We thank you for the great assets that we have that we can come into your presence unashamed, not judged. Father, we worship. We thank you for your son. We thank you for the name Jesus because we know that at the mention of this name, at the mention of this great name, every knee will bow and every tongue would confess that Jesus is Lord. Oh, we thank you for the efficacy in the name of Jesus because THAT IS WHERE WE HAVE OUR BOLDNESS. We thank you for the efficacy of the name OF JESUS BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE we have our boldness. Oh Lord, we worship you. In Jesus mighty name we have worshiped. >> Amen. >> Amen. This morning I just want to share a scripture with us. It's one of those scriptures that I really like especially for people who are believing God. I don't know what it is. I don't know what stage is in your life. You believe in God for something, something unique, something special. God has a promise in his word. You know the word of God is complete. There is nothing missing in this word of God. So at every stage that we are in our lives, there is always a word of God for us. There is always a word of God for us. Um let's read um Isaiah 30. I'm reading the amplified version. Isaiah 30 verse 22. It says, "The smallest one will become a thousand and the least one a mighty nation." It says, "I the Lord will quicken it in its [music] appointed time." Glory to God. >> Oh, I hold on strongly to this word. I read it again. It says the smallest one, the tiniest one, the weak one. It says the smallest one will become a nation. It says that the smallest one will become a thousand and the least one, the smallest, the tiniest will become a nation. Then he doesn't say oh you will do it on your own will or oh you can do it on your own power. IT SAYS I the Lord I will quicken it in its own time. So God will do that thing God has said he will do for you. Oh hey he will do it for you. He says in its own time. Who will QUICKEN IT? GOD WILL QUICKEN IT. Not you. Not me. Not Pastor Phil. Not Pastor Joe. Who will quicken it? God will quicken it. So don't give up. Hold on to that thing God has said to you. Hold on to that word God has said to you. OH, DON'T LET THE devil steal your joy. Don't let the devil steal that promise that God has given to you. If God has said it to you, he will quicken it. The word of God does not lie. I know every time I stand here, I say there is one thing I know. I may not know a lot, but there is this thing that I know that the word of God, it does not come back without fulfilling what God has said. So hold on to this word this week. Have a lovely week. Remember that God will quicken it in his own time. [music] >> Glory to God. >> Glory to God. Glory to God. This week we just have little notices. We have um the cafe. We have it running for Wednesday, Thursday, and on Saturday. It's [music] 10:00 in the morning to 3:00 p.m. We have beautiful food. Oh my god. Oh my god. Yes, I pop it when I can, but I always leave very full. So, if you have the time, please pop on in. And of course, we have the food um the food bank that happens on Friday as well in the morning. If you've had a lovely time, join me this morning. Our offerings, titan offerings. It's a culture in the house. We give to God. It's something we do. It's our culture. It's our lifestyle. But you're not compelled if it's your first time in church. It's not something you're compelled to do, but we give to God. While we do that, children, are you ready to have a lovely time in God's presence? Children, [music] I have someone telling me I'm not a child. I want to be in adults church. Arala children's church. for a time of word in God's presence this morning. Join me as I welcome Abodum. [applause] Praise God. >> Are you with me this morning? Amen. Wondering how or where to start from. There's a lot going on um around us and every time um you look at everything going around, there is always something signaling negativity. In the midst of positivity, there's always something that is telling you that you are limited even in the midst of your strong strength. Right? And so there is always these two voices that is overlapping. There is always that voice that says that keep going on you will do it. You can do it. And there is that voice that keeps saying to you are limited. You can't do it. You're going to exhaust your strength. you will wear out. And so these two voices are always at play every time in everything. It will never stop. It was at play in the life of Jesus because even the devil was telling him is limited. And so it depends on which voice that we give attention to. I don't even know why I'm starting from there because that's not even my message. [laughter] Sincerely, I don't know. >> But this is >> this is just something that is coming to me now. >> And I it it it's it's a clash >> that happened within us. And this really is is a conflict that if you do not win it from within, it limits your productivity and your ability to step out daily in order to achieve your goal. And particularly the goal that the Lord has set for you, the purpose. How many of us know that when God created man, he gave man a purpose? We were deliberately, intentionally created for purpose, for a purpose. So, we're not an accident. We're not a mistake. But you SEE THESE VOICES THAT clashes around you. The intention is to drag you away from that purpose. And when you miss the mark, you miss the goal, you miss the prize. >> God help me to get back to this message today. But maybe we should just let that sink in. In the next few minutes, we will just be going through um God's word and then we're going to be looking at the word further because the Lord wants to take us further and farther, right? And there's something about um when God plans to do something, there is nothing that can stop it. >> Nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. I'm just quickly going to share two stories with us before I go into into quick words. Um first king 18:31-46. I'll read quickly and I'm reading from King James version. And Elijah said unto Ahab, "Get thee up, eat and drink, and there's a sound, for there is a sound of abundance of rain." So Hab went up and eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Camel, and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees. And he said to his servant, "Go up now, look towards the sea." And he went up and looked, and there there is nothing. And he said, "Go again." Seven times the servant went came back. And it came to pass at the seventh time that he said, "Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like the man's hand, and he said, Go up, say unto ha, prepare thy chariots, and get thee down, that the rain stopped thee not." And it came to pass that meanwhile that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain, and he brewed, and went to Jezrael. And that's just one um premise to lay there. And the next one I would quickly go to before um we go into the word is the book of Genesis. And I would read also from chapter 13 and verse 14 to 15. And it says, "And the Lord said to Abraham, after that Lot was separated from him, lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, southward, eastward, and westward. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it to thee, and the and thy seed forever." And I quickly go to 15 verse 1-6. And he said, "After these things in 15, the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision, saying, "Fear not, Abraham. I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. And Abraham said, Lord, what would thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this, Ela of Damascus?" And Abraham said, Behold, to me, thou has given me no seed, and lo, one born in my house is mine ear. And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not to thine air, but he shall come forth out of thine own borrows shall be thine ear. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them, and he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. I don't know how many of us can look into these dots in here and then if you look into all the lights here and if you look up as well here and you see the strings of lights somewhat they are separated individually. How many of us found it convenient to count this lights? It's a real eye test, isn't it? How do do you find it convenient to say I can count all of this? I think the single sports will be about a thousand. And this was the test Abraham was subjected to. And don't forget it does not even have one. Just one of these dots. But [snorts] it was said to him, come forward. Look upward. Look forward. Look to the side. Look to the west. Look to the east. Look to the north. Look behind you. Look at the stars. IF YOU CAN COUNT IT, it says, "So will thine ears be." And at that point in time, Abraham does not have one. And that's why I'm saying to us this morning, we're going to be going further because we have to look as well. The first story on the hilltop you see fire had fallen from heaven. 450 prophets or bal had been silenced before the story. Right? The people were on their faces crying is God. The greatest miracle had been done already. But Elijah is not celebrating at that point in time. He's not resting on what had just happened. He turned to Kayab and said to him, "Get thee up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of abundance of rain." UNDERSTAND THAT AT this point in time rain had not fallen for 3 years plus there had not been rain. AND ABRAHAM SAID, "GET THEE UP, for there is I hear a sound of abundance of rain." The sky was bright. The ground was cracked. Elijah said, "I hear rain." In the midst of nothingness, somebody hears something. In the midst of AN EMPTY SKY THAT naturally Abraham comes to every morning when he looks up, HE WAS BROUGHT OUT AND HE WAS told to look again. And he said, "I hear there's a sound of abundance of rain." He goes to the top of camel, cast himself down and put his face behind his knee. The posture of a man that is like giving birth travailing in the spirit and that is where Elijah was. How many of us will call forth rain today? And this rain is not typically the real or or literally the rain that we're talking about. I don't know what rain you need to call forth. I don't know what rain. I don't know what has been a drought for. It can be months. It can be years. But I don't know. But I've got news for you. There's a sound of abundance of rain. There's a sound of abundance of rain. And you see this was something not born in the in the natural but in the supernatural the rain was born in the heart of Elijah the rain was born. It's only about time it will show forth. He said go up now look to the sea. I want you to be an extension of my voice. Say to somebody beside you go up and look. Oh it's not convincing enough. Tell the person go up and look. UHHUH. THEY MAY HAVE TOLD YOU THAT THIS IS THE END OF IT. OKAY. THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO TURN to anything. YOU MAY HAVE HAD TOO MANY UNFORTUNATELY AS EMAILS. GO UP AGAIN AND LOOK. CHECK AGAIN. THAT'S NOT THE END OF THE STORY. >> THE DOCTOR MAY HAVE GIVEN ONE DIAGNOSIS AND THEY SAID THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. AND FAITH SAYS GO IN THE CORNER, PUT YOUR FACE BEHIND YOUR KNEE, MAKE SOME POWER AVAILABLE, GO UP AGAIN AND LOOK, check it. That's not the end of THE STORY. IT DOES not end there. I don't I don't know how many testimonies or how many wrong negative words and maybe that's why that foundation was laid. I wasn't even connecting it until now. MAYBE THAT VOICE WAS CONFLICTING IN YOU AND IT'S TELLING YOU DON'T DO IT. YOU CAN'T MAKE IT. YOU WON'T GO THROUGH. But go up and look. And the servant goes up. Look. And don't forget faith at this particular point is not because it's been spoken to you and we said you are healed in Jesus name. The fact that he's not done now is not going to reduce the power of God to do it when he will do it. Faith says keep believing. IT IS NOT THE PERSON WHO HAS LAID HAND THAT IS THE HEALER. IT IS THE GOD WHO THEY HAVE PRAYED TO. SO IF WE HAVE PRAYED HEALING AND YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT NOW, KEEP PRAYING. DON'T STOP. >> Keep believing. Don't stop. WE ARE NOT ONE OF THE SO THE THE THE THE BELIEVER'S world is not because we have believed today and we SAY THAT GOD IS NOT A MAGICIAN. HE BUILDS YOUR SPIRIT. HE BUILDS YOUR CAPACITY SO THAT WHEN THE HEALING COMES YOUR HEART CAN CARRY IT. IT IS NOT JUST FOR YOU. FOR US BECAUSE SOMEONE WILL HEAR YOUR STORY AND THEY WILL BE ENERGIZED AND THEY WOULD BELIEVE because the healing is not for the person who has laid hand to be glorified. It's for God. Oh God, I don't know what impossibility someone came here with today. I don't know what has been said or that makes it look like the first word that has been said by the name of Jesus as I lay my hands on this altar I decree it is cancelled. I don't know. You may have been struggling with certain words, certain declarations, certain seeds swn into your heart, but today we pray in corporate anointing and we decree that that cloud is over in Jesus name. There's a lot words can do. The servant goes up and look and reports and he comes back and he said go up and he goes and say master there is nothing. And Elijah was still there and he was still there. He didn't stop. ELIJAH DIDN'T TELL THE servant you are faithless because I've said go and he has come back to say no. ELIJAH KNEW THAT EVEN THE SERVANT WILL BE A BENEFICIARY OF THE FAITH. SO THE MIRACLE IS GOING TO CONNECT EVERYONE WHEN IT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN. AND ELIJAH SAID TO HIM go again. AND HE WENT. DON'T FORGET THE SERVANT WAS TOLD TO LOOK. AT SOME POINT WHEN YOU GO THE FIRST TIME you look you notice nothing. AT THE SECOND TIME YOU START GETTING TO LOOK A BIT DEEPER. AND ELIJAH SAID AGAIN, "GO again the third time." AND HE WENT AND HE SAID NOTHING. THE FAITH IN THE SERVANT AS WELL WAS GETTING AWAKENED, NOT ONLY TO HAB, TO EVERYONE AROUND. AND FOR THE SIXTH TIME, HE SAID, "GO AGAIN." AND HE WENT AND HE LOOKED and said, "This servant, there must be something. Maybe he's growing old. Maybe something is wrong with Elijah." AND HE SAID, "MASTER, THIS IS THE SIXTH TIME. THERE IS NOTHING." And Elijah said for the second time, FOR THE SEVENTH TIME, GO AGAIN. AND HE WENT, AND BEHOLD, HE LOOKED KEENLY, and it looked like a hand in the cloud. Oh, come on. You may not see THE SIGN NOW, BUT GO UP AGAIN. YOU IT MAY LOOK LIKE THERE IS NO RAIN, BUT GO UP AGAIN. AFTER A WHILE, A DW WILL DROP. IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE MIRACLE. It says, "GO AGAIN." AND BY THE TIME HE CAME BACK, HE CAME BACK WITH A NEWS THAT ELIJAH WAS WAITING FOR A SIGN FROM GOD. HE SAID, "WHAT DID YOU SEE?" HE SAID, "I SAW IT LOOKED like the hand of a man in the cloud." And then Elijah knew that it's about to happen. >> It's about to happen. Oh, [laughter] I don't know. Somebody may be at the seventh time already that it's about to happen. You have sent MULTIPLE EMAILS. THEY HAVE TOLD YOU THAT NO NO APPLICATION CAN GO THROUGH. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. GO UP AGAIN AND LOOK. SOMEBODY MAY HAVE TOLD YOU THAT CONTRACT WILL NOT FALL THROUGH. GO AGAIN. THEY MAY SAY THE SCHOLARSHIP DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. APPLY AGAIN. DON'T STOP. DON'T FORGET. STAY LIKE ELIJAH. STAY ON THE MOUNTAIN. KEEP PRAYING. BUT GO AND look again. It's about to change. THE SIGNS, THE CLOUDS WILL CHANGE AND YOU WILL START GATHERING IN THE CLOUD AND IT WILL BECOME DARK AND THE RAINS WILL FALL. The impossibility that you've been limited to, constrained to is going to shift. It takes daring faith by human mind. You get discouraged with little words of rejection. By natural human mind, you would say no more. You say, "No, they told me I'm not good enough." And then you [snorts] let it go. But by faith, no. You stay in there, quicken your faith, build your muscle in the spirit, and go again. The sixth time report is the one word that wants to short dive every promise. On the seventh trip it came down different reports and the Bible says the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was great rain from the handsized of a cloud to a heaven covering downpole and then it fused the whole sky. The second story introduced Abraham to us. Abrahams had nothing to show for the promise. Don't forget before this chapter, God had given Abraham the promise. He was a friend of God. He relates with God oneonone, but no inheritance paper. And at this point in time, Abraham was even dwelling in a foreign land, not his home. So there is no inheritance paper. Abraham hasn't gotten a anything permanent to say this is yours. And God says something remarkable. God didn't come and say Abraham come out here are your documents. This land now belongs to you. No. He didn't give him inheritance paper. God is God didn't come out to say Abraham this is a billion pounds. Now you can leave all your life in fun. No, it didn't. How many of us would have loved that? Such s that kind of miracle. And God knocks the door and say, "Hello, my son. Here's a million pound. Go ahead and enjoy life." Oh, thank you, God. Let's go have a cup of tea together. But God told Abraham something remarkable. He said, "Come." And he brought Abraham out. He said, "Lift up thine eyes and look from the place where you are, northward, southward, eastward, and westward. For all the land which thou see, don't forget this is a foreign land." And God was saying, "The land which you see, okay, to thee I will give you, and to your seed forever." When God gives a promise, it is always beyond you, it's heavy. And that's why you need faith to bear it and bring it to life. Don't forget faith is a substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. Abraham had not seen the promise. Abraham had heard it. It's been given to him. But he said, "Come, look forward, look backward, look sideways, look." So typically God was stressing Abraham to look all around, but he's SAYING, "LOOK ALL THROUGH THE EARTH BECAUSE IT COVERS EVERY." HE SAID, "EVERYWHERE YOU SEE, I will give to you and to your seeds forever." What a huge promise. And this is where faith Abraham didn't doubt God. and go and they said Bible says he was counted unto him for righteousness even when he had not sinned because by rational mindset you want to ask God how would you give me how am I going to take someone else's land in a foreign land I said get out of your land God has said it's mine but that's not typically what God was He said, "Look, as far as your eyes can see, that's a point to pick here. That's yours." And later God took him to another place in the other story we read. And he brings him outside the tent at night. He said, "Look now to heaven and and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them," and that's the exercise we tried, that if you can number all of this, all right? He said, um, and number and and add, so shall thy seeds be. So think about this with me. Abraham was told to count something that he cannot count. He was told to release something he does not yet have. Not one child. But God was pointing at him saying that that's how many descendants you will have. So what did Abraham do? It doesn't say he drew up a plan or waited for proof. He says he believed in God. How many of us would believe God today? The beginning of birthing the promise is by believing. A lot of promises may have been said to you that even in the word of God you would have seen. The beginning of it is believing. Now neither the servant nor Abraham receive manifestation on the first Luke. Remember the servant in the Elijah story didn't see the hand. Abraham in the first story did not also see the seeds. He was to imagine it. He said, "Look, he was to believe in it for it to be birthed in his mind." As far as your eyes can see, by the way, that's the title of the message. I didn't establish that. Apologies for that. And Jesus used also this illustration about the mustard seed faith. And he said the smallest picture which is of course you know you know what the smallest the mustard seed is. And he said, "If you have faith as a grain of a mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, remove ends to yonder, please, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you." The first point is that faith is not measured by its size, but by the size of what is aimed at. Faith is not measured by its size. The size of what is the mustard seed is one of the stories, the smallest there is. And Jesus said so himself it does not have the mustard seed in itself does not have power to move the mountain because it's impossible for a tiny seed and a mount and a mountain by human mind for that to move it. But that is not to say that it is the monster seed that would move the mountain. So what is saying it does not move a mountain because of its seed. It moves a mountain because it's planted towards a big go. Who can move it? Oh you don't get it. I MAY BE A SMALL BOY, BUT I'VE got a big God. [laughter] So there's a little THING THAT MY STRENGTH CAN DO, BUT THERE'S A LOT THAT MY GOD CAN DO. AND SO THAT'S WHY I DO NOT GO IN MY SMALL BOY NATURE BECAUSE I HAVE GOT BACKING. THE CONFIDENCE WE HAVE AS A BELIEVER TO STEP OUT DAILY IS BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A STRENGTH OF GOD in us. AND SO WE CAN SAY THIS MOUNTAIN, BE THOU REMOVED, AND IT WILL BE REMOVED. AND THAT IS THE SEED that that Jesus was talking about. Say to somebody, you may be small, but you've got a big God. Oh my brother, you may be small, but you've got a big God. AND AND THAT'S WHY WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN THE ENEMY COMES LIKE A FLOOD AND IT SAYS THE LORD WILL RAISE A STANDARD, IT IS NOT YOU YOU CANNOT RAISE THAT STANDARD BECAUSE THE FLOOD CAN OVERTAKE A LOT. BUT GOD WOULD RAISE A STANDARD AND THEN IT COMES AGAIN THAT WAY. GOD RAISES A STANDARD AND YOU ARE ABOVE. I stop trying to figure it all out. Stay in faith because when you try so much you will be wearied out. You will get tired. There's a lot that faith can do. Your power will fail in it if you try. The second point today just for us to note is that faith walks on the ground before it walks above ground. You see the seed that is also an example is that it doesn't germinate in the daylight. For many of us who plants right, you know that once you put that seed in, it is covered. It is shielded. It is watered. And gradually it starts growing from within. It establishes a roots. It gets it nutrient from the soil that you have manured and that you HAVE WATERED. AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, WHILE THE EYES IS NOT SEEN, WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT, it starts sprouting. And this is what faith does. AND SO THAT'S WHY I SAID WHEN the word has been given to you, do not forget. DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED BECAUSE IT MAY NOT SHOW NOW BUT IT'S ABOUT TIME AT SOME POINT IN TIME THE SEVENTH REPORT WILL COME AND YOU WILL SEE THAT cloud and it would come out. Don't give up. It's like a seed. They may have spoken healing. Prayers of healing may have gone out to you AND YOU'RE WONDERING WHEN will this healing come? Don't give up. Keep the faith alive. Keep believing in it. IT'S LIKE A SEED. KEEP WATERING IT. AND HOW DO YOU WATER IT? WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AND DECLARE THE WORD OF GOD. I AM HEALED BY THE STRENGTH OF GOD. I AM HEALED. I AM HEALED IN JESUS NAME. BY HIS STRIPES, I AM HEALED AND I AM MADE WHOLE. YOU MAY HAVE BEEN PRAYING IT FOR ONE YEAR, BUT DON'T FORGET it's a seed. IT IS GROWING INSIDE. IT'S GOING TO COME OUT. DON'T GIVE UP. And when that healing comes, it becomes beneficial not only to you but to ALL BECAUSE AT THE POINT WHEN THE PLANTS COMING, you start seeing people appreciate it. Oh my god, your pants is lovely. But they do not know when you were watering it. They were not there when it was growing from within. But everyone can now see the miracle. And so Abraham seed took decades. The servants cloud took seven trips to the mountain. So don't panic because your miracle is still on the ground. Don't despise your miracle. It's going to happen. Point three, speak. Faith speaks before it has full evidence. And now Paul said to Abraham, God that God called those things that be not as though they were. Elijah also said, I hear the abundance of rain. Faith will first and foremost speak before the evidence. He says, I hear the abundance of rain. Biological mindset. Everyone around looking at a drought. Imagine the heat wave that we had few days ago. Imagine a country going through that for three and a half years, watered, dried up, the ground ALREADY CRACKED, AND YOU FIND ONE MAN COMING TO SAY, "I HEAR rain coming." Everyone will turn to him and like, "Are you is everything well?" But faith speak before evidence and faith takes boldness. And so that's why WE SHOULD NOT GET TO THE Gen Z Christian world where you are afraid to speak faith because you're wondering, you think the responsibility of the reality of that faith IS ON YOU. IT'S NOT ON YOU. WE'VE LIMITED the the principles of belief to the level where I do not want to hurt his FEELINGS OR HIS FEELINGS. GOD HAS SAID PRAY FOR THE HEALING AND YOU HAVE SAID no I don't. What if that HEALING DOESN'T HAPPEN? IT'S NOT YOUR BUSINESS. HE HAS GIVEN YOU A RESPONSIBILITY. PRAY. PRAY AND BELIEVE. YOU ARE NOT THE HEALER. GOD IS. Don't feel BAD AND YOU SAY I PRAYED BUT I DIDN'T SEE. IT'S NOT YOU THAT BRING RESULTS. YOU WILL NOT BECOME deputy god. So why WHY DO YOU THEN FEAR AND I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPENS ACROSS CULTURES AND WE ARE NOW AFRAID AS BELIEVERS AND GOD has said release a particular word of faith and you are scared what if they say I'm a liar. God cannot lie but man CAN BUT WHEN GOD HAS SAID SAY IT SAY IT. One thing he he expects from you when you say it believe it. Don't leave the mountain like a like like Elijah stay there. Say it believe it. It will happen. Faith takes boldness. The very last point, faith keeps looking after the first nothing. After the first nothing, faith will not stop. Faith is still working. Don't forget for the servants if Abraham was faith and if Elijah rather if Elijah was being human and not in faith after the first nothing Elijah will start secondguessing himself and like I think it was my word not God's word because THE SERVANT WENT THE FIRST time and he said what did you see and he said master I saw nothing but faith was still working and ELIJAH KNEW THAT FAITH WAS WORKING THAT IF GOD HAS SAID IT HE WILL DO IT SO IF GOD HAS SAID YOU WILL GET THE SCHOLARSHIP, HE WILL DO IT. IF HE HAS SAID YOU WILL CROSS THAT PATH AND GET THE JOB, HE WILL DO IT. IF HE HAS SAID THAT YOU WILL BREAK THAT BARRIER IN YOUR FAMILY, HE WILL DO IT. IF THAT FAMILY PATTERN WILL STOP WITH YOU, HE WILL DO IT. IF GOD HAS SAID YOU WOULD RAISE GODLY CHILDREN, HE WILL DO IT. Stay believing. And the servant went six times. The nothings didn't stop Elijah. IN FACT, IF HE HAD STOPPED ELIJAH, then nothing didn't stop God. BECAUSE IT WAS GOD THAT SAID TO HIM, I SEE, I hear an abundance of rain and Elijah first believe, stayed on it, AND BY THE SEVENTH REPORT, SOMETHING else change. I don't know who is expecting something to change. Oh my god. Something is about to change. YOU WILL HEAR THE ABUNDANCE OF RAIN. THERE WILL BE CRACK IN THE SOUND. THERE WILL BE A SHAKING. AND YOUR MIRACLES WILL COME. DON'T STOP BELIEVING. I'm speaking to myself as well this morning. We need to energize our faith. We need to get to that level as believers where there are things that we can pray and stay on the mountain with God and DO NOT FLICKER. UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS EITHER YOU DO IT OR YOU do it. There is no option. I know somewhere in your life, God has already said, "Look, maybe over your family, your health, finances, ministry, it may even be your marriage, your future." And somewhere along the line, you you've gotten so many nothing reports that at that point in time, you've put a stop to believe in. Don't file in that report as your final report. No, don't. Maybe today all you've got is a hands-ized cloud just like that servant that energizes the servant and afterwards the cloud changed fully. One testimony from someone else similar breakthrough, a small opening at work, small softening in relationship. Don't call it nothing. Don't call it nothing. There are signs in there. Just because it isn't yet a downpour does not mean that handsized cloud will not bring a torrential rain. I'd like you to ask yourself within your hearts, what have I stopped watching out for? What promise of God have I stopped believing in? I like the band to come up, please. After the third and the fourth look, and God said, "Go again." Today, I'd like you to do something for me. I'd like us all to be on our feet. If you can like us to be on our feet. I do not know the promise that God has given to you, but I know that as far as your eyes can see, God can give to you much more and beyond. While our eyes are shut, concentrate on the promise that God has for you personally for your life. It might be for your marriage. It might be for your career. It might be for your future. It might be for your children. As far as your eyes can see, I like you to picture it. [music] The promises of God. I like you to picture it as far as your eyes can see. Don't limit what you can see. Do not see these things with your strength. Look at what God can do. It's not an exercise. It's prophetic faith. I want us to stir up the belief in our hearts. Is it healing that you can see? Is it breakthrough you can see? Is it deliverance you can see? Is it the salvation of someone who they've said it's impossible for the person to be saved that you can see? Is it the doors that God can open? Is it the marriages that God can fix that you can see as far as your eyes can see? I'd like you to stay faith within you. If you and if you can quietly repeat [music] after me and I'd like you to say these words like you are planting a seed. I'd like you to say after me. I see beyond what my eyes can see. My seat is small, but my God is not. What looks like nothing is not my final report. I will go again. I will go again. As far as my faith can see, so it shall be. under your breath, I'd like you to begin to pray. I'd like you to just pray that God's promises over your life shall come to pass. I'd like to give some people an opportunity today. Maybe all of this sounds a little hard for you and you feel that I do not even believe in God. So how will I believe in faith? I want to say to you that God is faith. Faith is God. And I'd like to give you an opportunity today. Maybe you want to say, "I do not believe in God, but I'd like to believe in God." quietly where you are, I'd like you to put your hand on your chest. I'd like you to put your hand on your chest. I see that hand. I see that hand. And just say, "Lord, I believe in you." Say, "God, I accept you as my Lord and my Savior. I believe you died for me. I believe you rose again for the redemption of my soul. and I believe [music] that I am your son. I am saved. I am redeemed. I am a believer. I belong to God. Father, we thank you. Thank you because we will no longer be limited. Thank you because our faith will move a mountain. Thank you because our future is bright. Thank you because we will go again. Thank you because the [music] report is not the final. The limitation is not final. Thank you because there is a sound of abundance of rain. Thank you because you would give us the seeds and our seeds, the endless part of the earth, inheritance like never before. Thank you because healing is possible. Thank you because deliverance is possible. You are the God of all impossibilities. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Jesus name we pray. >> [music] [music] >> I got [music] the joy of the Lord deep down inside of my soul. And [singing] I can hide it no more. I got to praise you. I've got the joy of the Lord deep down inside of [music] my soul and I can hide it [singing] no more. I got to praise the one who broke [music] my chains and for my freom. [singing] What else can I say? But [music] thank you Jesus cuz you're just that good, just that [music] faithful, and you're just that kind. I'm so grateful that you save my life [music] like you said you would. So [music] when my head held high, harder [singing] dancing than a baby on fire, singing and dancing cuz you save my life like you said [music] you would. Cuz you just cuz you're just that good. You put a [music] song in my heart. I sing with all that I've got. Tell the world who [singing] you are. We're going to praise you. You put a song in my heart. Sing with [music] all that I've got. And tell the world who you are. I'm going to praise the one who broke my days for my freom. [music] What else can [singing] I say? Thank you, Jesus. Cuz you're just that good, [music] just that faithful, and [singing] you're just that kind. I'm so grateful that you take my life like you said you would. [music] So in my heads up high [music] singing and dancing. You can save my life like you said you would. Cuz you're just [music] you're just that good. [music] Yes. Let your just let you just go. [music] Praise the one who broke my chains and bought [music] my freom. [singing] What else can I say? Thank you, Jesus. You're the [music] one who broke my chains, bought my freom. What else can I say? Thank you, Jesus. Cuz [music] you're just that good, just that faithful, just that kind. I'm so grateful you saved my [music] life like you said you would. So with my heads [music] up higher than a fif singing [singing] and dancing cuz you save my life [music] like you said you would just cuz you're just that good. Yes, you just you're just not [music and singing] good. Yeah, you just you just [music] praise Jesus in this place. He's worthy. [music] Hey, thanks for joining us, church. It's been great to worship with you. Hey, if you're new here, we would love to meet you next door over a drink. and church. We will see you next week. Have a blessed week.