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Let us pray. We love Him because He first loved us. 1 John 4.19 Dear Father, I seek Your wisdom and guidance today. Please help to ease any anger or frustration that may occur today and remind me of Your great love for me. Please help me to establish a loving environment so that I can understand and respect the people that You have placed into my life. Allow me to love myself fully and
and deeply in every moment of the day, just as you love me. Amen. Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer. For more inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor, stay tuned to Pray.com's Sunday service.
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Hey, what's going on, everybody? This is Dr. Michael J. Fisher of the Greater Zion Church family in the beautiful city of Compton, California, and your host for What's Up With That podcast that streams Monday through Friday right here on Pray.com at 10.30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. I'm so excited to hang out with you.
all day today because this is Sunday service worship. I want you to get your Bible. I want you to gather your family. I want you to turn this all the way up and I want you to lock in because God has a word for you. And if you're ever in the city of Los Angeles, California, come to Compton and visit us at 2408 North Wilmington Avenue, Compton, California, or follow me on all social media networks at Michael J.T. Fisher. For now,
Let's go in and see what God is saying through his word. I'll see and talk with you all later. Father, we ask that you navigate us now into the preached word moment. Thank you for your presence. Thank you that we're able to feel you here with us and near us. Now speak to our hearts, God, like only you can.
And we claim it now in the powerful and matchless name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. And praise God. Come on, clap your hands again and give God the biggest praise that you have. I want to encourage many of you all to go with me to Genesis chapter 12. Genesis chapter 12.
Jesus. All right, y'all. So, of course, technology would not be my friend right now. So we are having technical difficulties in uploading my message. But that's why I study. So, amen. Go to Genesis chapter 12, verse 1 through verse 3. New Living Translation. All right. If you got it, say, I got it.
Amen. And it reads as follows. It says,
and you will be a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you. I want to talk about on this morning as we start a new series called Edify.
I want to talk about on this morning the sacrifice to rebuild. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Thank you, LJ. Look at your neighbor and say it will be a sacrifice for you to rebuild. This year, God was very clear, Greater Zion, in telling me it is now time to build. Now, immediately we hear that.
and assume that it's time to build businesses, or build a building, or build success, or build things. But God was speaking to me about how we as a culture have mastered building sanctuaries, building houses, building platforms, building brands,
But we place unfinished and unrefined and unpolished people inside of them. And God reminded me that he, unlike us sometimes, is always concerned about the growth and maturity of the person. And the growth and the maturity of the people before he is concerned about what he will do for them or do through them.
Therefore, Greater Zion, as I come to teach you this morning, you're going to have to pay close attention in the first month of this year about growing in maturity. If you're not willing to tackle your immature ways, I don't care how long you shouted last night, this is not your year. So look down your row and tell your whole row, we really going to have to grow up this year. We really...
Really gonna have to go. Yep, you can put a clap right there. Ladies and gentlemen, the way that we approach life now is that we want whatever God has, but we want God to give it to the wrong versions of ourselves. I got time today. I'm gonna say that again. The problem with our approach to life now is we want whatever God has for us to
But we want God to give it to the wrong versions of ourselves. We want all the promises. We want all the breakthroughs. But we want God to give it into irresponsible hands. We want God to bless us and we are not the best versions of ourselves.
Y'all came for a New Year's Day word. Y'all came to receive a prophecy. Well, your neighbor is your prophet this morning. Turn to your neighbor again. You're going to be talking to him the whole time. And tell your neighbor, God is going to grow you up this year. Now hold your claps before you clap about God growing you up. Please understand that that also means he's going to have to break to pieces the person he is tired of you being.
No one loves you enough to say that sometimes last year the wrong you kept showing up. And God says it will not haunt you into this year. What's the wrong version of ourselves? Number one, it's the version of ourselves that does not reflect how God originally saw us in his mind before he made us.
Like any parent, when you see that child that you gave birth to, you have ideas and vision for the best version of their life and the best version of themselves.
And God also makes us with an original plan in mind. But just how we have to release our child into the world and they pick up cussing and lying and hiding. God also places us in a world of sin and watches us lean toward everything opposite of his plan for our lives, which produces the wrong version of ourselves. Amen.
2023 is the year where God may have to reset you in order to rebuild you. When you do not stay off of a leg or injury that is needing time for it to grow properly, you will go back to the doctor and the doctor sometimes will have to reset that leg, which means he may have to re-break what you thought was healing.
In order for it to heal properly. I did not come to shout y'all today. I'm telling y'all, God spoke to me clearly and said, I may have to re-break you. But it's only because I really want you in 2023 to be the best version of yourselves. For I know the plans that I have for you. Plans of good.
And not of evil. Plans not to harm you but to bring you to an expected end. And you are behind schedule ladies and gentlemen. And the Lord wants to make up for time. Which means that he may have to position you in some uncomfortable situations. Until you finally learn how to act right in some painful circumstances. God is going to fix your mouth this year.
God's going to fix your attitude this year. Y'all don't like me. Why'd y'all come? God's going to fix your pettiness this year. God's going to fix your rebellion this year. God's going to fix how slick you are, how vengeful you are this year. God's going to fix it. God's going to fix it. He's going to fix how inconsistent you are. God's going to fix how needy you are.
God's going to fix how you don't know how to wait on him. God's going to fix how prideful you are. God is going to fix how arrogant you can be. Don't shut down on me and wake up. God's going to fix it because there are some things that he has for your life that he cannot afford for the wrong version of you to be in control in 2023 because he will not allow you to hijack
The plans that he has for your life. The calling that he has for your life. The purpose he has for your life. The things that he has ordained for you to walk into spiritually and for you to walk into mentally and emotionally and spiritually. The Lord has great things for you and it's not a Lexus.
God has a great thing for you and it's not a mansion. The best thing God can ever give you is a transformed version of yourself. I wish I had 20 people just to take a five second praise break. If you know the biggest blessing God could ever give you in your life was when he changed you and transformed you for the better.
The other wrong versions of ourself are the versions of ourself that are still living our lives dictated by past trauma, dictated by past hurt, led by past disappointments, shame, and mistakes. Ladies and gentlemen, what would you say to me if I told you that God been blessed you, but your trauma been blind you? Horrible grammar. Great theology.
What if I told you that greatness is already in your life and you can't even love it because the trauma. God help me in here. The disappointment from your daddy and your mama and your ex-wife and your ex-husband and your baby mama and your baby daddy and your friends. All of that is still haunting you. Mind you, they've gone on with their life. Mind you, they get sleep at night. Mind you, they doing good with themselves. And here you are still in neutral.
Over someone that God never told you to get in the first place. Double tap him. Double tap him. Come on, tap him. Come on, tap your neighbor. Say, he's in the vein. He is. Tap your neighbor. Say, he's in my driveway. Come on, tap your neighbor. Say, he about to come in my kitchen and fix spaghetti. Look at your neighbor. And God has watched trauma.
Hijack your marriages and your families and your friendships and your covenants and your ministry and your praise and your worship and your dedication and your years on your life long enough.
this is where you should clap and God will restore to you the years that the locusts and the canker worm has eaten up but here's where you're not going to clap sometimes you were your own locusts and sometimes you were your own canker worm and sometimes you were your own lost ears can I walk prophetically
Emmanuel give me more in the pulpit it's a little big I've been praying and hollering for 24 hours someone shake your neighbor please and tell your neighbor I break trauma bonds right now I don't care if that's your auntie I don't care if that's your meemaw I don't care if that's your grandma I don't care if that's your mama I don't care y'all ain't saying nothing to me I don't care if they pay your rent if it's causing trauma
I break it in the name of Jesus. Let me tell you why you got to say that to your neighbor. Because they ain't obviously strong enough to break themselves. So I need you. God. I got a long way to go. But there comes a season when God's plan requires that he shifts you.
from who he has watched you become and he shifts you into who he has longed you to become. Y'all gonna hate me for this. Switch seats with your neighbor. Oh, y'all gonna hate me for this. Y'all gonna hate me for this. Y'all gonna hate me for this. And sit down and tell your neighbor, because I said it on New Year's Eve, tell your neighbor, say, you in a new seat this year. Boy, I wish y'all came.
Can I flow prophetically? Can I flow prophetically? So, for example, Terrell is the one kind of armor-bearing me today and this, that, and the other. It would be, he should not move from his seat. And moving from his seat, he probably thinks, how will I be able to serve in this position? And a lot of you all have attached your position to your seats. The position, I need five shouts, came from God. The seat came from man. Amen.
Sometimes God's got to change your seat so he can prove it was never your seat that gave you your position. But it was your position that gave you your seat. I just need you if you came to have church. Shout down your rope. Say don't be scared to let God shift your seat.
Can we have fun this morning? Every time I say shift, like we were with Sesame Street, you're going to have to change your seat. Every time I say it, you're going to have to in the sermon. I don't know when I'm going to say it, but you're going to have to. And trust me, your obedience to what I'm saying is going to reveal your stubbornness in your life. I don't know. Now look at your neighbor. Say, by the end of this sermon, I don't know where I'm going to be sitting. Now look back at him and say, same for 2023.
By the end of this year, and I'm not saying I don't know where I'll be sitting, but I know that every shift that happens is ordained by God. Y'all moving too slow. Sit down. Now you got a window. You got a window. I say the word. When I say sit down, you got to sit down, which means if you ain't got up by the time I say sit down, then you missed your opportunity.
Okay. I know somebody's looking at me like, what kind of church is this? I know. I'm messing up the seating chart. I'm sorry, ushers. I know. A little bit, I'm not. Look at your neighbor and say, this is a whole new era for you. I don't think I'm going to mess it through. I don't think I'm going to make it through the sermon. It's a whole new era for you. Look at somebody and say, fix your face. Yes, I'm talking to you. It's a whole new era. Fix your face. You came to church. I don't want to see it no more. Fix it.
Because I'm prophesying your prayer. And you sitting here looking at me like this ain't the answer. Well, God, what you going to do next year? It's going to be a whole new era. Here's your response. Whole new era. Whole new era. Here it is. Here it is. If you want to become a legend, if you want to become a legend, you got to understand that every legend in the Bible that we speak about had to experience this part of the journey. Well, all of a sudden, God disrupts their journey.
And then just takes them on a whole nother route.
God, I help me. Some of y'all can't even have church right now because you ain't even sitting where you were sitting. Look at some of y'all. Some of y'all, you can't even have church. Y'all looking like, I can't wait to get my seat back. And that's your problem. That's your problem. That's your problem right there. Here y'all are looking like, oh my God, I don't like sitting over here and I can't hear nothing over here. I can't praise him over there. And church neighbors say, he's been arguing with you about seats for the last 10 years and he is sick of
I got much more to preach. Moses, this happened to Moses at the burning bush. Samuel, when he was sleeping at Eli's house. Elijah on Mount Carmel. Elijah, when Elijah threw his cloak over him. It happened to David when he was running from Saul. Jeremiah, when being ridiculed and he wanted to quit. Happened to Isaiah when King Uzziah died.
Ezekiel when given the vision of dry bones. Jacob when wrestling with God all night. Habakkuk when told to write the vision, make it plain. Matthew when called from tax collecting. Peter when called off the boat. Paul when knocked off his horse. And you and I when we survived the pandemic. Don't lose it. Five seconds. Shout that you survived the pandemic. Yeah. And God...
Told me to tell you. All right, okay. God told me to tell everyone in this building that will receive what I'm saying to you is that you have survived. Now it's time to build. Okay, so this is the word for somebody what I'm going to tell you is that you've been in survival mode for so long.
You have no idea what it feels like to build. You've been surviving. Who am I talking to? Y'all know y'all got to let me see and hear. You've been surviving for so long trying to make it work with the little pieces you got.
The first announcement is God said you don't have to try to make it work no more I'm giving you everything you need so you can build You Michael anybody go shout on this I don't want nobody shouting in survival mode no more your next shout Don't say nothing your shot right now is I don't care how long you were how jacked up you were
left alone you were I'm telling you from heaven God is about to help you yeah I need a hundred of y'all shake your neighbor say get your nails get your wood get your stuff and get ready to I don't know that I'm gonna make it through the sermon I got so much to preach but I don't think I'm gonna get through it
Here's the thing. As God says, and how I build you, this is the word I'm going to tell you that's very strange to hear in our society, is I build you by edifying you. Oh, God. The word edify means to uplift. God, close my eyes because I'm seeing, and in a minute I'm going to start laying hands, and we're not going to make it to the end of the sermon. But the word edify means to uplift.
to instruct, to improve, to enlighten, to inform. Say it again. To uplift, to instruct, to improve, to enlighten, to inform. To uplift, to instruct, to improve, to enlighten, to inform. To uplift, to instruct, to improve, to enlighten, to inform. Big 12. The Greek word
The Greek word, because when we see edify, edification in Ephesians, the Greek word means to shore up. I love this part. And to make solid. This tells us that before God is ready to present you before the masses, because there will be a presentation this year. I'm going to move past that.
There will be a presentation this year. He will present you. That this season, this year, is a season where God is going to design your journey to uplift you, to teach you how to follow instructions, to improve you, to enlighten you, which means to elevate your insight and your wisdom. And I love this part, and to inform you. This will be one of the most informative years of your life.
Y'all better hear me. Y'all better hear me. This will be the most discerning year of your life. Nobody will be able to hear me. Nobody will be able to fool the children of God in this year. Now hear what I'm telling you, some of y'all sneaky people that's in here. You and your sneaky links.
You and whatever you got plotting against folks. Because this room ain't full of folks that just on fire for God. Hear me clearly that it is not the year to remain in the lives of godly people if you do not want God to show them what you are up to concerning them.
Here's why he has to do it. I see nervous eyes. Here's the reason why he got to do it. Look at your neighbor say, because he needs you to be solid this year. And what will wreck you above all is when you are blindsided by situations that if you could have saw it coming, you would have had room to prepare for it. And it has knocked some of y'all so far off course. If I'm preaching, say keep going.
He's knocked you so far off course that God said the only way to keep you sure and steady is to finally uncover the stuff that may hurt you, but it'll help you prepare. Nothing this year, I need 20 claps, will sneak up on you if you are praying before God. I'm telling y'all right now, if they doing it, God gonna tell you. Say yes. Say yes.
He wants you to be solid. Psalms 1 says, because in Psalms 1 he says, I need you to be like a tree. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all here for it today. That's planted. Oh, y'all here for it today. By the rivers of water. That will bring fruit in its season. God has to take you this way. The way that you don't want to go because you need to become planted this year.
And he's got to take you this way because here's what happens to you. You oftentimes move from fresh water when you don't like the soil. When you don't like the tension. Oh, it's going to get quiet now. Lost all my shouts. When you don't like the tension, when you don't like the inconvenience of your soil, you start moving yourself. But where you are is by rivers of water.
The river means that it's water coming from a whole nother source. And here you are about to allow soil to disrupt your connection to water that's coming from a whole nother source. It doesn't matter if they don't like you where you are. Let me put it real. You're not being fed, God help me, from where you are. You're being watered from where God is. Amen.
You understand what I'm saying? Sometimes soil and fertilizer is very uncomfortable. It doesn't smell good. But this is the word a lot of y'all not going to want to hear. It's stop uprooting yourself because a sick tree will produce bad fruit.
And many of you all have got to let God take you through some uncomfortable seasons and plant you some places that you do not want to be planted in order for God to finally cause you to bring forth non-toxic fruit. And now I'm in my text. I got two things for y'all and then I'm done. Y'all ready?
So we go and we talk about Abraham because Abraham really shows us how it is that God deals with people that he's in covenant with when he's ready to do great things through them. Some people would think that it would be Noah, but no, because Noah's story teaches us on how to survive. And since your survival season is over and it's now time for you to be built,
And it's time for you to be established. God takes us to Abraham because Abraham, listen, God is ready to use someone. I love you, Lord, to establish generational blessings. Put your pen and paper down for this one and tell your neighbor he's going to use you to set up your lineage.
That's the wrong neighbor. You all are not just coming into something so that you can walk around and say, I'm blessed. That's not what God is up to. God is putting an Abrahamic anointing on you. Two, four, six, eight.
Where he says, and when you die, your children and your children's children will still be blessed from what I started in you. Y'all don't have that. You're not shouting for just your stuff. Look at your neighbor and say, but you're shouting for your great, great, great grandchildren's stuff.
who will be blessed because of what God did in you in 2023. So I'm going to challenge you to do something by faith. Send a shout to 2081. Send a shout to 2100. Send a shout to 2103 because they will still be eating from the blessing of 2023 on your life.
Watch it Watch it Watch it Only dreamers can participate at this point only people who see beyond themselves can talk back to me now Only the ones that say I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing it for my nephews and my nieces I'm doing it for the future generation going through this for me all through this so when my son comes up he will be blessed out of
through this so when my daughter comes up she will be blessed y'all can't talk to me y'all sitting up in here y'all ain't seeing what I'm seeing I need 300 of y'all to lose your mind for the blessed next generation check out my shit how
three people and say the next generation is gonna eat from your sacrifice ain't nobody saying pull your neighbor till they have to get up and say you suffer well cause your next generation is gonna reign because of your suffering
Don't you start hollering out your kids' names. Don't you start screaming your cousin's name. Don't you start shouting your nephew and your niece's name. Don't you do it. Your God kids, your God son, your God daughter.
Because they're the ones that's going to be blessed from your hollering here. Now, if you don't believe it, sit down and shut up. But if you believe it, throw back your head. Open up your mouth and shout like you... Shout yes! Shout yes! The bloodline.
It's about to be blessed like they hear me the bloodline Why y'all think I was running back and forth why y'all think I was running why you think I was running Because it clicked to me and if you feel the same way I feel when it clicked to me God said that's why you're the one attack so much y'all ain't gonna shout here because the turn
in your lineage happens in your lifetime. Okay, we gotta participate. Grab your neighbor and turn them and say what God is telling you is that a whole lot did not happen until you
We're born. Nobody's saying nothing. That's why you're attacked and your siblings are not. Y'all not saying. That's why you lose his sleep and everybody else in the family is knocked out because the turn happens with you. Y'all still don't have it. I don't
need no organ on this no drums on nothing cuz I need y'all to shout on this too touch your neighbor say so praise God that he taught you how to survive the attack because if you die now your future loses everything that's why five of y'all gotta shout you shall live
Y'all don't know when to shout without the organ, without the piano. If you're going to live and not die to declare the works of the Lord, make the devil mad and give God a life. I don't care.
if y'all run up here to the altar don't bother me today because this might be your word this is this why the devil is attacking your marriage that's why the devil is attacking your parenting that's why the devil is attacking you that's why the enemy is on your head but i got good news i feel like having church in here god i feel like having church in here i just need to see where my praise is that my hollers and my prophetic people are when i say this i got good news god is getting ready to hold back the attacker long enough so you can
If I dance one more time, I'm not going to make it through the sermon. So somebody dance for me. Somebody look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, right now the devil is held back. So you got the next three months. Why you ain't calling me back? Why we don't go out no more? Because I only got three months. All right. Okay.
Okay, so Abraham. Ain't nobody saying nothing. Turn around in your seat and say, he about to let me peel. He about to let me peel. That's why he shifted it. So here's what God says. God says, so here's what I did to Abraham. I was ready to do something in his bloodline.
I was ready now. And here's what he says in the story. The first thing I need to tell y'all to do this year. Y'all ready? Three words. Take it to heart. And I need y'all to let, you know, you know why I be telling people, run, do your thing, this, that, and the other. Because, you know, people that don't understand, they'll look at you and be like, ah, you're doing too much. We are not here for you. We today are so not for you.
Because what I'm about to say right now, I really hope it almost lays you out in your seat. Three words. This is your whole three words for 2023. Disqualifying yourself. Night, night. I don't even have to go to point number two. You have done more damage to yourself, telling yourself what you can't do, than the devil has ever done to you. You have done more.
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You told yourself you have told yourself more lies than the devil has ever told you I'm sorry. Just give me a second. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I apologize. I'm okay. You have done more. I know what that feels like, man. And you do more to yourself.
Telling yourself I don't deserve it. God you can't you have to be you have to be picking the wrong person But God told me to tell you today Stop disqualifying yourself. So here's the thing that you got to understand as I try to take my seat cuz I'm obviously not doing good I'm about to fall out I'm really about to not make it but listen to what I'm about to tell you about his history
His history, he came from a land, y'all don't know this, they served other gods. And Yah was one of the many options that they had. Yet Abraham becomes one of the notable men in the biblical story. Why? Because of his, not because of his pedigree, but because of his yes. I know what it feels like to come from brokenness. And because of the brokenness you come from.
It causes you to never give God a full yes. Because you say things like, I'm going to be just like. Look, here's where I need y'all. This is where I will need your help. If you never prophesy to your neighbor again, lay hands on their shoulder and tell your neighbor, you're not about to be what they was. And I need y'all to shout this and then celebrate them and say, you're about to be what God wants you to be.
I don't care the curses. I don't care what it was in your bloodline. Shout at your neighbor. Say, you're only about to be what God wants you to be. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. And God uses Abraham because even though he comes from an idolatrous background. Here's the shout, y'all. Here it is.
God uses Abraham simply because he's willing to follow. No. Okay, can I go deeper? Did I lose y'all in my emotional moment? I didn't lose y'all, right? Here's what you got to understand. He's following the instructions of a God who he was never taught about. The reason why you have almost been ready to pull your hair out. God, if I'm not, if I'm...
Talk to me if I'm on point with this. It's because God is talking to you in ways that there are no examples of. Mama and all of them, they loved God. And there's no slight to nobody. But the way God is dealing with some of y'all, you have no... Talk to me. You have no reference point for it. You have no reference point. So you've been disqualifying yourself because you're logical.
And you're like, I don't have nobody to go to and talk to about how God is calling me to do something that I've never done before. And here's your shout. God said, and I'm using you simply because you're crazy enough to follow. Y'all, I got one more point. I don't have three points. Not a Baptist closed today. I just got two points. But here's the end of point number one. Your follow qualified you, pre-qualified you for everything coming to you this year. Y'all, no, no.
I'm talking about talk to me. If there were moments in 2022, we were ready to completely hang it up. But you said to yourself, I've come too far. Am I talking to anybody? I've come too far to lay it down now. You want to shout? Everyone that's looking to you, jealous, envious, envious of where you are, what you got and who you are. Here's what they don't understand. You almost didn't survive the last quarter of last year.
While you were still loaning money, while you were still encouraging, while you were still preaching, while you were still ministering, while you were still being there for everybody else, what nobody knew was that you was getting ready to lose everything. That's why Twitch hit us that way. That's why Twitch rocked everybody. We didn't have to know him because he did it in a time where we were all on the verge.
Y'all want a shout break? Yank your neighbor and say you owe God a 15 second because he pulled you across the finish line. Y'all, no, no. If you walked into this year, sit down. But if you had God, you was like, no, no. He was like, yes, yes, yes. You was like, ah. He was like, yes, yes, yes. You owe God a shout because even when you gave up on yourself, he now gave up on you.
I'm no good, I'm no good. If you love your neighbor, grab him and pull him, Lee Lee, and say, get over here. That's how you made it over here. He pulled you. He pulled your mind. He pulled your peace. He pulled your spirit. And you want me to shut up? I'm not going to shut up. Let everything that has breath, breathe.
Okay, okay, alright. Woo!
Click check ready real quick. Can I get anybody for 20 seconds? Just 20 seconds. 20 seconds. Can you close your eyes, look back over your life, and open your eyes again and give God praise that he pulled you from September to October to November through December, and now you're in January. If you don't mind, just for 20 seconds, clap.
hands in this building and say thank you that you pulled me pulled your marriage pulled you pulled your children brought you out of depression brought you out of anxiety brought you through it brought you over it brought you under it walked you walked you he pulled you
Help me preach the rest of this sermon. High five three people and say, "Ah, he pulled me." Ah, he pulled me. Ah, he pulled me. Ah, he pulled me. Pull your neighbor and say, "He's still pulling me."
Point number two. And then I'm done. You don't have to sit down because I'm done. The second part. So God tells him out of nowhere. He says, hey, you. He said, hey, you. And Abraham, who had never heard this voice before, turns around and says, yes. I know you've never heard God require so much from you like he is right now. But I'm going to go holiness real quick if y'all don't mind.
I need y'all on the count of three to just jump up and say, yes, Lord. One, two, three. I'm out of here. Some of y'all said it from your throat. I need you to say it from your belly because you've been kind of warring with God about whether or not he can use you in your fullest capacity. But something's going to break loose. I don't care if you got to scream your neighbor's ear off. I need you to for the next 30 seconds to hop up again and holler. Yes, Lord.
Oh, do it again. Yes, Lord. Oh, I see the leaping. I see the jumping. I see the breath. You say yes, the Lord, the devil of procrastination comes after you. Yes, Lord. I will. Yes, Lord. I'm going to do it. Yes, Lord. Make it.
Let me finish, Lord. Someone, one more time. One more time, please. Yes, Lord. Yes. So,
So God, I'm done. If y'all waiting on me to hoop, I'm hooping. I'm hooping right now. I hear you. I hear you. Yes, Lord. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Now.
Here's where you will be tempted to sit down and check out on the sermon. I want you to fight that temptation. Because after he says yes, God comes back with an even bigger request. And he says, get thee away from your native country, your relatives, your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you. Do I have 10 more minutes of your time?
Because here's where you got to understand. You said yes. Now let's go back to why I've been having y'all move all across this sanctuary. This is going to mess you up because God told me to tell everybody in here. At first, I wrote it down. Sometimes I war with God when I'm preaching, Hunters, and I got to learn to stop doing that. So I wrote it down in a passive way. And then God right now said, now tell them what I told you to tell them. And here it is. God said,
This year, you will be leaving the familiar. Y'all want to know what I wrote down in my disobedience? I wrote down, be willing to leave your familiar. If y'all ready for me to sit down, I'll go in my office and holler by myself. But look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, your bags are already packed. That's that feeling you've been feeling for the last three, four months. God is already packing you up mentally.
From places. Here's your shout. That no longer serve purpose. It's not personal. It's purposeful. It's not personal. Tell everybody to get out of their feelings around you right through here. You got to tell people. Stop it. Stop it. It's not personal right through here. My decisions I have to... My decisions I have to make now...
It's not personal. It's all purposeful. And I can't be around things that have become so familiar with me that they now try to own me. Some people love to use how familiar they are with you to manipulate you.
Now, everybody will not run because it's so crowded in here. So you won't make it to this altar. But I'm about to set somebody free when I say this. And I hope you're standing next to somebody that's got some kind of power. And over here, y'all looking real powery-wee. Lay hands on somebody.
and tell them the spells of manipulation. Lay hands, I don't see everybody laying hands. Make sure you lay hands on somebody. Tell them, say, yep, y'all, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's about to happen right now. Y'all ready, musicians? Because it's about to happen. Grab somebody and say, the spirit of manipulation is broken right now. Holla, broken!
find somebody else and grab them say everything that try to manipulate you it's a good time I say ain't nobody saying nothing I do not care I don't care how the lady they are I don't care they your blood I don't care it's brought down I know bushing it somebody holla say get you someone
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Now here's why it's pandemonium in here. It's pandemonium in here, bro. It's pandemonium in here. I'm going to tell you why. Reason why it's pandemonium in here because and nobody's safe.
Everybody off duty. I don't care. This is everybody's word Because stuff from your yesterday is holding you hostage from your today Ain't nobody saying nothing and I need you to hear me Manipulation has to be broken or you'll never walk away. Are y'all hearing me? I can't get to everybody in the back over there. Are y'all hearing me? If it's not broken, you'll never walk away. So here's what god said. I had the break and
over you and then God says I need you to get away from everything that you've seen done wrong in other words bring it home let me bring it home no I told y'all he was raised in an idolatrous environment but he becomes a man who serves God alone he gets totally away God is saying I need you to get away from how you saw it done
Because all because you saw it done that way don't mean that's how I want you to do it. I don't care what's been in your family line.
you understand what i'm saying i don't care if there's 17 million divorces i don't care if they all dealt with mental disease i don't care whatever has been in the lineage of your family i if i wish i could multiply myself and run through here and lay hands busy i would because if i tell you what i saw the power that's in here right now i can't get to you because the power is not on me the power is in god but i need you to hear me very clearly that there are things that you saw in your family
Things you saw happen in those before you. Here's the thing. It's not to demonize it. It's to say it no longer serves a purpose now. I don't have time to list that some of you all have seen people in your family be timid or shy or deal with abuse or never stand up for themselves or whatever that looks like. Here's what God says. God says that all of their errors will not be passed to you.
That's why God okay. This word is yours. Okay. I'm ready musician I'm ready on this one if this is your word you're gonna have to make the person give you some room because here it is That's why God needs you to take a break from them because Y'all let her run let her run get out of her way get out of her way. I mean get out of her way. I don't know God it happened. Can I can I go back to my notes? Can I go back to my notes? It's not personal. I
It's purposeful. You see what I'm saying? Everybody wants to take breaks personal. Everybody wants to make you feel guilty because there's some seasons of isolation that you have to have. Am I talking good? And God says to Abraham, I got to isolate you.
He said, now I'm going to deal with another part next week. So I'm about to end this right here. He said, I got to isolate you. I need you to come out from all of that. I need you to abandon it. I need you to make your move. Now, here's where I'm going to close. I know I said it 15 times, but I'm trying to close right now. Here's how you know it was time for him to move. God, I love your word. His father dies. No, no, no. That's not a prophetic word that someone's going to die. It's the definition of death.
Which means it's terminated. God terminates the strongest hold on Abraham. And then says to Abraham, you can move now because I killed that. Watch the process. Now let's go home. God says, they've had a hold on you. I need them to no longer have a hold on you. I need you to move from that. He's like, but I also know if you're tied to that, you won't move. So I'm going to terminate it.
Then I'm going to tell you to move. And then if you move, I'm going to close on the promise. I'll manifest the promise. It's not by mistake. And if y'all all catch this, then I did a good job setting up the sermon. It's not. I'm going to follow the equation again. Something had a hold on you. God permanently ends it. Then God says move. That's the equation. Got it? It's not by happenstance that this word is being preached. January 1st, 2022.
has officially been terminated. Your instructions now, your instructions now is that you cannot reach back to nothing back there and borrow anything from what's happening right now. God said everything that I killed last year, let it die. Don't even pay respects to it.
Ain't nobody saying nothing to me. Erase the memories. No more flashback Fridays. No more throwback Thursday. God said that's it. That's over. It's done. And here's what he said. He said, Abraham, I need you to get your stuff and I need you to move. Now the reason why y'all don't
to move it it's because he said I'll show you the land when you get there so here's how it goes he says I tell you to move as you move I will build you I will edify you I will uplift you I will assure you here's the shout when you have finished the building process I will reveal the land here's where we got to start January 1st y'all don't know how to move so that's the reason why earlier in the sermon every time I said shift you were supposed to shift and here's what stopped you from shifting
You guys were sitting there saying, well, I don't want to step over this person. Oh, excuse me. That's uncomfortable. Get my stuff. Let me do this. Let me do this. But what you are practicing in this sanctuary right now is every time God tells you to make a move next year, God said, I don't want to argue with you about it. I just want you to move. I just want you to move. So here is where we close.
I want you to look at three people and say make three moves right now Vanessa I'm done Vanessa put Genesis 12 and verse 3 on the screen now look at your neighbor and say neighbor here is why you got to make your move
will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt go back to verse 2 go to verse 2 here it is I will make you into a great nation I will make you and make you famous I will bless you and you will be I'm done close Bible close our path
but shake your neighbor's hand and say neighbor with every move you make God's gonna bless you with every move you make he's gonna bless you to be a blessing you ain't saying nothing shift ain't nobody saying nothing somebody start moving somebody move again somebody move again now wherever you are shake your neighbor's hand and say neighbor
God is giving you access to move move into your power
moving to your authority, moving to his will. And while you move, say yes, Lord. While you move, say do it, God. While you move, say my soul is ready. While you move, say do it now. Bless me. Bless me indeed. Bless me when I come. Bless
me when I go. Bless me in season. Bless me out of season. One more time. Move, move. Every person you pass,
high five your neighbor say you not just gonna be blessed your family's gonna be blessed it's not just your household it's everything you touch every person you pass lay hands on your neighbor and say everything around you shall be blessed it shall be blessed the name of
Abraham anointing is on your life. Somebody move again. Move again. This is your whole year. Now wherever you are, stop where you are and praise him for the new position, the new seat, the new area. Shout for where he brought you now.
Hands lifted. If I never preach again, word of the Lord over your life is I'm building you this year. But in order for me to build you, you're gonna also have to be okay with me moving you. It's uncomfortable.
Wherever you're standing now, here's a shout. That's not where you started. I speak in the name of Jesus. I speak over the people of God in this place that you will never be stuck again. I speak in the name of Jesus that you'll never find yourself in that ditch ever again.
Drowning the way you were drowning. Miserable the way you were miserable. Unfulfilled the way that you were unfulfilled. Depressed the way you were depressed. Lonely the way you were lonely. Broken the way you were broken. Distraught the way you were distraught. This whole year, God is going to be about movement. I don't know how he's going to do it.
So I don't have that part of the sermon for you. But what I do know is that one day you're going to look up and God's going to tell you the same thing he told Abraham. From this place, north, south, east, and west, I'm giving you the whole land. If you don't mind, can you, the best way you can, lift up a worship from your new place? Bow down and worship him.
Yeah, how about sick? I mean, I mean, I mean, can you lift it up? Can you not be shy about this moment? Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. I can't dismiss you until you give them the worship. I can't dismiss you until you give them the worship. The full worship, the full worship. Come on, Judah, wherever you are. Come on, lift your voice in this. Lift your voice if you're all the way in the back. I don't want you to be quiet. I
spiritually declare that you cannot be quiet come on come on come on come on if you need to come to the altar just come and fall before the altar just because God is God is moving you he's moving you church he's moving you
And that's the word you needed in this house. You needed that word. Now be obedient to the move of God. Come on, come on, come on. Come on, we on time, we on time. Come on, with all you have, make a move. Take a step towards God. Bow down. Bow down in worship. Lift your voice and... Go worship Him.
Where my worshippers at? Where my worshippers at? You do this in the kitchen. Let your voice say consuming fire. Sweet.
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This is holy ground. This is holy ground. This is holy ground. I want the church. Come on, y'all got the song. Get louder. Say bow down. Worship.
We're going to do this without Judah. Y'all going to do this on your own. Bow down.
Come on, lift them up. Come on.
Come on, lift them up. Thank you for speaking to our hearts. Like only you can move us into this new season. We'll be careful to give your name the glory, the honor and the praise. In Jesus' name, amen. On your way back to your seat.
Go ahead and nudge and hug some folks and tell them, welcome to your new location. Welcome. Welcome to your new location. As we're all standing on our feet, somebody in Jesus' name, come on, stand to your feet. Are we family? And yes?
Now may the Lord bless thee and keep thee. May he make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. May the Lord lift up his confidence upon thee and give thee such peace. And so you shall put his name upon your children. And he promised that I will bless them. You receive it, give God praise. Turn to your neighbor. Tell your neighbor, God love you. I love you. And there's nothing you can do about it. Be blessed and highly blessed. I am a Savior.
Hey, thanks for tuning in. I'm so happy that you were able to experience this God moment through God's word with us. And whenever you are in Los Angeles, don't forget to visit us in Compton, California, Greater Zion Church Family, 2408 North Wilmington Avenue, and stay in touch with us on our website, www.compton.com.
GZCfamily.org and follow me again on all social media networks under Michael J.T. Fisher. Until next time, always remember that God loves you, we love you, and there is nothing we want to do about it. Be blessed and highly favored in the Lord.
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