Vision Sunday: Make Room
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PROPHETIC WORD:
“The Word of the Lord for you is make room, make room, make room, make room! The next meeting you are going to have with your key leaders is not troubleshooting, it’s not responding to a crisis, it’s how do we manage everything that God is sending our way. That’s the next meeting.”- Pastor Samuel Rodriguez on 8/7/20
Leviticus 26:9-10 NLT
9 “I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you. 10 You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!4 Characteristics of a Vision that is Multiplying
The Favor of God
Fertil Hearts
Fulfilled Promises
Fruitful Harvest
Leviticus 26:9
“I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people.The favor of God is the fertilizer in your life that takes you from managing vision to multiplying vision.
Vision is always connected to a process that prepares you for the promise
Principle: In a season of increase two houses get blessed, God’s House and Your House.
Leviticus 26:10 NLT
You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!Supernatural Surplus requires Making Room so the Vision can Multiply and Expand
1. Make Room in our Hearts.
2 Corinthians 7:10 MEV
Godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret.2 Corinthians 7:10 NCV
The kind of sorrow God wants makes people change their hearts and lives.God always expands the heart before he expands the house.
Self-indulgence
Bitterness / Hatred / Revenge
Pride / Vanity / Narcissism
Judgmental Spirit
Worry / Fear / Doubt
Discouragement / Depression.
Lust / Sexual immorality
Filthy Speech / Language
Gossip
Materialism
Laziness / Selfishness
Religion / Works
Physical ApathyPsalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.2. Make Room in our Heads
Ephesians 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.When we fully operate according to the power that is working in us we will push past the thoughts and old thinking that is limiting us!
Isaiah 55:6-9
6 Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.A new way of life requires a new way of thinking!
2 Corinthians 7:10 GW
In fact, to be distressed in a godly way causes people to change the way they think and act and leads them to be saved. No one can regret that.3. Make Room with our Hands so God can Make Room for More Heroes in our Community
Leviticus 26:10 NLT
You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!When you have your heart right, your head right, God will use your hands to do right!
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Transcript:
(00:05) [Music] get up get out your seat live out your Desy get out hi my name is Jasmine I serve here at Real Life Church as one of the pastors and I want to take a moment before we jump into today's message just to say thank you first of all for engaging with the message we believe that this message is going to lift up your faith and lead you to encounter God through his word if you haven't already we would love for you to take a second and subscribe to our YouTube channel this way you can stay engaged and upto-date on the latest messages this
(00:53) helps us get the message of the Gospel out to others again thank you so much for joining us from Sacramento and Beyond we trust that you will be blessed by today's message today is Vision Sunday this is really a a part one it's really a a first step towards what God is calling us uh to do as a congregation all the notes are on the uver app or the Bible app you go there uh if you have that go there go to events Real Life Church Sacramento all of my notes are there um but I want you to just be ready it's
(01:35) it's a message that I believe is going to hit hard how you ready to get hit hard hit it's really a message of repentance and I believe that the Lord uh as we sang earlier may he wants to make room in our lives for what he's getting ready to do he wants to position and posture ourselves in such a way listen that when he pours out what he's already pouring out by the way listen we are ready to receive it that and more amen and so I want to just share with you in um every year we have the edify
(02:07) conference where we just come together collectively as a church and just we invite uh our our friends to speak uh into the life of this church and there's prophetic words that come and one of those words was from Pastor Dave Patterson from the father's house and I wanted to share that word with you this morning before we kick off this message on Vision here's the word from Pastor Dave Pastor Dean as I was praying for you and for Real Life Church let me just say this prophetically that there's
(02:40) something on your church that you've yet to tap into and the Lord says this house is a place where people far from God are coming and this building is not big enough and so keep looking extend the borders of your tent Drive Stakes further out what God is going to do in the future there will be thousands of people now you have to contend for this you're you're a very nice guy I just met you but you're you're a gentle soul but inside you I I feel like there's this there's this Warrior thing
(03:12) that God wants you to stretch into there's a spiritual like an aggressive kick butt mentality I don't know if I can say that in a prophecy but I just did and so what will happen in real life as you go after all that H God has for you there are tens of thousands of people within 20 minutes of here that will be drawn to this place this church exists not for pre- church religious people looking for a better gig on the weekend this church is here for those far from God they're going to find life in Christ I see a man artists and
(03:44) musicians and entrepreneurs and people that their gift has been so mangled by the plan of the enemy and they're going to hear about a place where a loving redeeming God will welcome them in and people will walk into this place I'm just prophesying over it those of you that take care of the lobby your dream team whatever you call them there's going to be something about the entrance of your building and the next building you go to that when people walk into the building immediately they're going to
(04:10) know this I am loved and accepted in this place and I am home and I am home this is what God is doing he's not done he's just getting started so if you kind of flatlined on your church experience I've been in the Kingdom for a lot of years now and I I've gone through Seasons where it just seems like we're we're just just running the same play over and over again God is saying I'm getting ready to do something new and I'm looking for some people who will go with me and take some ground in
(04:39) the spirit so I'm declaring over this house if you will position your heart and stay hungry keep dead religion off of you keep broken before the Lord stay hungry for God this will be a lighthouse of the presence and the power of God I'm jumping ahead of myself for sure but I just need to prophesy this there are places in the nation we be known that God's presence settled down over that place and we've seen this historically over the centuries and I believe you have the potential and the essence of
(05:09) what what God is looking for the main characteristic is humility and availability Hallelujah come on how many are you ready to fight come on for what God has for Real Life Church and God wants us to align us and this is why we've been kind of singing what God is saying this morning we need a move of God in America come on we don't need another good church service we need a move of God in America and it starts right here not just in our church but it starts right here with us individually each and every one of us
(05:45) listen saying God make room in our hearts God make room in our minds God make room God for all that you want to do so today I want to just share my heart it's really a step one to where God is leading us and actually where we're walking at this moment in February Amy and I for the first time were able to go to Orlando Florida and uh having never been there before like Florida's kind of new for us um we were going to Disney World Amy loves Disneyland and and so I surprised her for her birthday and we we went to
(06:20) Disney World can I just tell you first of all like I had no idea like I just thought Disney World cuz I never been there I never researched it never really cared um and and when I when when I was just kind of like thinking about going and taking her I just thought it was going to be like a Disneyland on steroids right I've been to Los an or Anaheim a lot been to Disneyland a lot I just thought man Disney World's just you know it's going to be Disneyland on steroids I couldn't be further off based than that cuz
(06:54) Disney World is Not an amusement park it's actually its own planet yes it's a it's actually a own City within itself the Walt Disney World Resort covers 43 square miles of Central Florida this is roughly the size of San Francisco and twice the size of Manhattan on and so when we got there I was just like whoa yeah I get it now Disney World it's its own world okay the vision that we all enjoy today called Disneyland or Disney World began one day while Walt Disney took his daughter to a kids park and as she went
(07:36) round and round on a ride he was impatiently waiting and bored out of his mind all of a sudden he began to Envision a place where parents and children could have fun together and in 1955 the Disneyland dream became a reality and today Disney Parks operate in California Florida France and Japan one day two men were walking through one of the parks there's four parks in Disney World we only got to three of the four but one day two men were walking through one of the parks at Disney World and one said I wonder what Walt Disney
(08:16) would think of if he saw this today and the other man replied oh believe me he saw it yeah I want to talk to you about making room to see what you don't see yet making room to see what you don't see yet I've shared this before but in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic we were uh invited to an outdoor service with Pastor Samuel Rodriguez in South sack and it it was a meeting and and I was praying and I was going to share a little bit and during worship in the transition Pastor Sam turned to me and
(08:56) he just spoke over us and our church and he said the word of the Lord for you is make room make room make room Make Room everybody say make room make room he said the next meeting you're not are going to have with your key leaders is not troubleshooting it's not responding to a crisis it's how do we manage everything that God is sending our way that's the next meeting well 2020 we're in the middle of a pandemic we're not meeting as a church and how many you know there's plenty of
(09:26) room there's plenty of room like like we're not run our room so what I do when I receive uh gifts of the prophetic words when they're spoken over my life I put them I file them and I pray them and just like uh the word we just heard I'll contend for them I'll pray over them I'll make them personal and at that time we had plenty of room so in November of this year as I'm just seeking the Lord for 2024 and what he has for us as a congregation I hear the phrase make room yeah on make room and I immediately went
(10:00) back to this word that Pastor Sam and then thought about the word that Pastor Dave and Pastor 83 spoke over our church at the beginning of the year and then the Lord led me to Leviticus chap 26 9 to1 because this was not new revelation it was confirmation and God always confirms the prophetic word come on with God's word amen and so Leviticus 269 and 10 this is the word of the Lord I believe for you and I as we begin to take this first step to all that God has for us he says I will look favorably upon you making
(10:35) you fertile and multiplying your people and I will fulfill my Covenant with you you will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new Harvest you see a lot of people have Vision a lot of churches have great vision a lot of businesses and nonprofit organizations have vision however as you know you might have personal Vision as you know not every Vision experience multiplication because it lacks what I call the four pillars of a vision that is multiplying now this is going to
(11:16) apply to your church our church and it's going to apply to your life there are four pillars of a vision that is multiplying or four characteristics of a vision that is multiplying the first is the favor of God everybody say the favor of God favor of God this is the Divine approval that transforms our efforts from Mere management to fruitful multiplication he says I'll look favorably upon you how many you know we can't do anything without the unmar favor of God on our lives and by the way we if you're born again believer here
(11:50) this morning we all have come on access to the same favor listen I'm not God's favorite come on we're all God's favorite come on tell your neighbor you're God's favorite and we all have this favor it's what it's what we allow God to do in our lives with that favor This Promise of favor underlines the essential role of divine favor as the Catalyst in our journey from taking a to taking a vision just to be something in our heart to actually something that we're living out it takes
(12:27) it from Vision to real ity everyone has favor every single one of us here that are called to real life you are graced to do something significant for God and it is a beautiful thing that God is bringing together in this moment listen it's not listen it's not just about real life it's about your life and when it come come on and when it is connected come on to somebody else's life and somebody else's life and somebody else's life how many you know that's a God thing come on that's right see
(13:02) favor it it's what again what I said it's what you allow God to do with the favor on your life how many know you can fight favor or you can flow with favor the favor of God is the fertilizer in your life that takes you from managing Vision to multiplying vision and this is what it does look at look at what it says making you fertile fertile Hearts number two our openness and Readiness to receive God's word and do the work that is required to partner with the word are crucial just this fertile soil is essential for seeds to
(13:45) sprout fertile hearts are critical for God's Visions to take root and flourish so I don't know about you but when I hear that prophetic word from Pastor Dave listen it hits my heart which is fertile and listen I want that word to go deep and I want Leviticus 26 269 and 10 to go deep and take root in my heart so I can walk in the promise so I can see promises fulfilled in my life just as fertile soil is essential for seeds to sprout fertile hearts are critical for God's Visions to take root and flourish the third characteristic or
(14:23) pillar is fulfilled promises how many want to see promises come to pass in your life the path of vision is a journey towards the Fulfillment of God's promises it's a process that prepares us it's a process that prepares us shapes us aligns us with his will leading to the realization of what has been promised and then there's the fourth characteristic or pillar a fruitful harvest the ultimate measure of a vision success is its harvest the tangible impactful outcomes that benefit not just us come on how you know the vision is
(15:02) not about us it's the others around us this Vision listen the vision that God has for this house listen is not about Pastor Dean come on it is about all of us everybody say all of us you got to catch this listen it's not about us listen it's about it's about everybody around us and listen everybody outside these four walls it's about reaching a community transforming a city seeing our World change launching leaders from this place to the nations of the world he says I'll look favorably upon
(15:39) you making you fertile and multiplying your people when Amy and I first became Pastors in 2017 and this is this is not a joke our prayer was Lord don't let us mess this up I mean awesome we following great Founders great church planners Legacy Church planners in Sacramento planted two great churches Dr Scott Hagen and Pastor Karen Hagen and literally listen we were like the mo like we didn't even think we were going to get you know we weren't they asked us late in the process they asked us to submit uh our
(16:18) resume and we were like well we'll just go through the process and so we did but listen literally when when when when they asked us to be the next lead pastors of real life church we were like Lord please don't let us mess this thing up there was a lot of managing of the vision initially a lot of doing the little things how many know you got to be faithful in the little before God gives you increase there was a lot of managing of the vision and God's favor on our lives when we came God's favor he gave us
(16:54) favor in managing the vision but we were not not fertile for the multiplication of people as a congregation that we are now experiencing as a church we were in the process everybody say process process we had the favor of God but we were in the process of aligning ourselves with the promises that God has spoken over the house he was making us good ground yes he was making us fertile we were we we we weren't ready for what God was about to release how many know we want vision to happen faster than it actually
(17:31) happens and we've got to do the work everybody say do the work and so we spent time listen getting healthy as a staff getting healthy in our finances getting healthy as a church and how you know that takes time it takes time vision is always connected to a process that prepares you for the promise the unmar favor of God upon your life is what makes your heart fertile and the seeds of God's promises spring into fulfillment I want to encourage you listen don't fight the favor of God on your life come on floow with the
(18:15) favor there's no fulfillment without the favor of God making you fertile in 2024 I believe God is calling us as a congregation to move from managers of vision and this is not just over this house I'm talking about your life personally your business your family your household listen I'm talking about you personally as well he wants to move you from managing the vision of your life to multiplying the vision of your life last year we did a series titled increase where I shared a principle that I want you to apply it to this message
(18:54) because what I'm about to share goes beyond Real Life Church as an entity and it has to connect with you personally and it's here's the principle in a season of increase two houses get blessed God's house and your house do you believe it I say this because I believe God is Not only looking upon us favorably and making us fertile as a congregation for the Fulfillment of the promises over our church God wants to see the same thing happen in your life your family whatever listen whatever you got your hands to
(19:28) God wants to see that same multiplication in your life that's right Leviticus 26:10 it says you will have such a surplus last week we talked about come on not running out come on but running over how many you got how many you stayed and got your head Anointed with oil by the way listen we're not running out as a congregation we're running over this is the mentality this is the mindset you have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new Harvest this is what I want you to see
(20:00) in this verse Supernatural Surplus requires making room so the vision and can multiply and expand yes that's right I want you to see in this verse notice the supernatural Surplus become comes before you have enough room it says this you will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain the super natural Surplus comes before you have enough room for it what I want you to see is what God is calling us to do in this season he's not calling us to a build it and they will come model he is calling us to trust him
(20:45) as they come Model come on listen we we we we are outter room everyone say outter room and listen we've got to get creative we just can't say oh we can't we can't reach any more people we're good wow we're we're now changing it from Real Life Church to real life Country Club no no no listen we can get creative we can get Beyond these four walls God wants to reach people the supernatural Surplus actually gives you no choice except to clear out the old and make room for the new Harvest listen that is already on our
(21:24) doorstep in other words everybody say we have work to do we have work to do and this is where things get fun I was telling the staff earlier this week that for literally and I'm I'm not just exaggerating here at all for 30 years I've longed to live in the moment that I'm living in now I got saved in a church that was in Revival in Alexandria Louisiana I got baptized filled with the Holy Spirit on a on a Sunday night nobody knew who I was I was just a kid that walked in the back listen and the
(21:53) church is in it's still in Revival to this day the church is still thriving it's still growing the church is in am every time I go back to see my parents I get there on a Wednesday or I get there on a Sunday just to sit and thank God for saving me rescuing me and filling me with the Holy Ghost this is what I do but I was telling our staff I said listen I've longed for 30 years I've been in Ministry man I've been at churches that have plateaued or dying and and having to to help them and and
(22:22) I've had a heart but Lord I've just my prayer has always been God I want to experience what I experienced when I first got Sav and here we are look around you look at the beautiful people look at the quality of leaders that God is bringing us we're in the Harvest God is bringing it he's dropping it on our doorstep and I want to continue to partner with God in what he's saying over real life and what he desires to do because in a lot of ways listen we're just getting started and the first thing that I
(22:57) believe God wants us to do is make room in our hearts we sang about it this is why it's a step one because it's a call to repentance really God make room in our hearts 2 Corinthians 7:10 says Godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to Salvation and brings no regret another version says it this way the kind of Sorrow God wants to make God God wants makes people change their hearts and lives God wants to make you further come on for the future promises that he has for your life you might not be able
(23:34) to see it come on your life might be cluttered you your life might be messy right now but can I just tell you something yes when you repent when you allow God to change your heart come on you'll begin to see clearly blessed are those who are pure in heart for what they will see God two sides of the coin when it comes to repentance sorrow refers to a feeling of genuine remorse and regret for sin or wrongdoing motivated by a desire to be right with God I'm so thankful listen that that this church people are being
(24:10) drawn not because they got it all together but because they know that God is calling them to more I I love it because the honesty is is just something that is like I love it that people can walk in and feel like man people are going to walk with me here people are going to disciple me here they're not going to judge me here I had a brother come up to me after first service he said man he's like God's called me back he's talk about 80% but how you know God will walk up to 85 come on in 90 and 95 come on we've got to be a church
(24:47) that's willing to walk with people through the stuff repentance is what removes the old and makes room for the new yes and as a human being can I just tell you this don't fool yourself you will never expand successfully beyond the capacity of a heart that is cluttered with sin God always will expand the heart before he expands the house I get excited when I hear Dave Patterson and others prophesy listen that the Harvest is here and the Harvest is coming but how many know we have to have a heart capacity to contain and sustain what God
(25:30) is sending us that's corre and so here are some things it's a checklist here I don't have time to go through all of them but God wants to deal with our self-indulgence the pursuit of pleasure we spent a whole month on bitterness and forgiveness hatred and revenge he wants to deal with our our pride he wants to deal with the religious or judgmental Spirit listen he wants to lift the worry and the fear and the doubt off your life come on he wants to break come on the depression or the darkness off of your life he wants you
(26:04) to deal listen he wants you to deal with the lust and the sexual immorality in your life he wants you to deal listen with the the filthy speech or language coming out of your mouth cuz how many know that's a deeper issue it's a hard issue he wants to deal with the gossip the materialism the selfishness the religious Works getting uh you get close to God instead of getting busy for God physical apathy balancing our Pace exercise our diet I love what David prays he says create in me a clean heart oh God and renew a
(26:43) steadfast Spirit within me can we just pray scripture just right now together can we just say this together create in me a clean heart oh God and renew can we say it again created in me a clean heart oh God and renew a steadfast spirit so I want us to get ready everybody say Get Ready Get ready this summer on Wednesday night starting June 5th we'll be hosting Revival nights to make room for what the Holy Spirit wants to do in our lives we're going to be in our small group break and so we're going to have
(27:22) Holy Spirit or Revival nights and we're going to start with a baptism and testimony service and can I just say this listen a baptism and testimony the place should be packed out I'm just telling you listen we are celebrating the goodness of God and what he's doing in people's lives and I'll tell you what the last baptism service we had was just amazing hearing the hearts that are being transformed in our congregation we're going to start with this service in June and July will'll be
(27:48) dedicated to be making room for God but here's the key we've got to allow God to make room in our hearts by remov removing the things from our lives so we can experience Revival together so what I want to share with you there's always a removal before there's a Revival there's always a removal before there's a Revival the second thing God wants to make room in our heads Ephesians 3:20 now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works us how many you
(28:26) know you have the power of the Holy Spirit on the inside of you listen the only thing that limits that is this right here or this right here the only thing that can limited the power of God in your life listen is not dealing with the clutter in your heart listen or thoughts strongholds stinking thinking how you know what I'm talking about there's an old story about a man who was fishing one day two men and uh one man was catching the big fish man anything over 12 Ines he'd throw back his friends kind of watching him
(29:07) he's like dude what's he doing he throw the small ones in the bucket he'd catch anything over 12 Ines he throw it back his friend watched him do this for about an hour and he said bro like what are you doing why do you keep throwing the big fish back and keeping the small ones and his buddy said it's simple my frying pan is too small to cook the big ones a lot of Christians are like that fisherman sometimes like that fisherman we throw back the big plans come on we throw back the Big Dreams we throw back
(29:47) the big jobs we throw back the big opportunities that God gives us and we settle for the thing that will fit inside our pan our faith is too small our thinking is too small but God wants to take us to a place where we fully operate according to the power that is working in us so we will push past the thoughts and old thinking that is limiting us this is what I tell our staff all the time because we know everybody we're running out of room we know we get it people will come it's funny people come guess
(30:18) all those things are say hey you're running out of room we're go stop right there we already know we're but what I tell listen I say listen we it's not beyond the Holy Spirit to give us a creative idea to make more room it's not beyond the holy spirit's ability to give us something that we haven't even thought of yet like an overflow space or or something else we're praying about possibly another campus in South Nomas I'm not sure what God saying but all I'm saying is listen
(30:47) can we stop depending on our our our own thoughts and our own ideas and say holy spirit will you give us something from heaven look at Isaiah 556 and10 we're used to just reading verses 8 and 9 but it says this seek the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he is near let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him return to the Lord and He will have mercy on him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon for my here it is now for my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are my ways your ways says the Lord
(31:27) for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts listen where God is taking us listen a new way a new way of life requires a new way of thinking in fact repentance not only means a turning away the the other side of the coin of repentance means a changing of the mind so not only being remorseful or regretful over our sin in a Godly way but also no God you're actually Chang changing the way I think Amy and I had the opportunity to go to A discipleship for two two years
(32:04) and it was like being in a pressure cooker honestly we just got saved we jumped right into the school and it was a 2year intense consecration that accelerated our growth because as we repented it replaced come on it replaced bad thinking come on with Biblical truth and principles literally that we're still building our lives upon even to this day and so as we head into the summer I sense God leading us to create Paths of discipleship and Leadership that could take the limits off us spiritually how many want the limits off in
(32:41) 2024 and so I've had a lot of people ask me about discipleship and and mentoring and and Leadership and so we're going to do a two- week intensive boot camp called the school of Victory and Ministry training and the first week we're bringing back Pastor Art Evans he's going to do do the first F first week on discipleship it's going to be incredible and then we're the second week we're going to do it on Ministry and Leadership training it's going to be a lot of people from the congregation
(33:07) like I said God has brought us quality leaders pastors and we're going to create the Practical nuts and bolts side of ministry on that side we're going to have an orientation June 30th listen I don't care how young you are or how old you are listen if you feel God stirring you come on to be a better follower or a better follower of Christ Lord or to become the leader that God is calling you to be I want you to jump in this two week and I'm going to be in it cuz now how you know whoever stops growing daily
(33:34) dies gradually that's right and then the third is this we have to make room with our hands so God can make room for More Heroes in our church and in our community Leviticus 26:10 says you will have such a surplus of crops that you'll need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new Harvest de in the edifi conference one of the things that was prophesied by Pastor 83 if you remember he said man you're not a wasteful people and he said this he said you're not wait I mean he said man every SP you're using
(34:10) every square inch of this building and you know how the Holy Spirit can go can can kind of just highlight that's how God sees this place we're maximizing it but all I could think of is the space that we weren't using behind this wall right here was just church junk come on how you know churches are good at like just keeping everything they have and putting it somewhere where nobody sees it right and so after that I I after hearing that I couldn't get my mind off that space because that was the only wasted space
(34:44) and I felt like the holy spirit said maximize every square inch of this building for Ministry until you can't possibility possibly facilitate any more Ministry from this space so that when God says make room you can say Lord we're out of room we need your help I told Pastor Jesse and Pastor Michelle and they and and they got the crew together we turn if you guys could show that picture listen they cleared out this Warehouse go to the next picture come on this team look we put the only way we could go is up so we
(35:15) brought the racks we went up and now listen you go back there and it is it you'll see it we're going to have a ribbon cutting that there it is right there this is all the supplies that have came in the last two weeks since we said yes to Jesus it's more than that it's more than that but how many you know this when you have your heart right come on and your head right God will use your hands to do right and God wants us in alignment with his purposes and his plans that he has for this house God has not just blessed
(35:51) us financially he's blessed us numerically last week alone we had 1276 people here he's bringing us so many many quality people he's blessing us with resources through new Partnerships and today I want you to get ready to receive something is that okay we're going to go a little over time but that's all right third service can figure it out because I want you to receive something prophetically from our guest who's going to close us out today Carl harus them is passionate about empowering the church to reclaim their
(36:19) missional mandate to love their neighborhood and show loving kindness of Jesus from the neighborhood to the Nations he serves as the executive uh director ctor of City serve Network who we're going to be partnering with here in our love Nomas Warehouse his Visionary leadership guides the network and leadership team and growth and strategic Partnerships I want you to get ready to receive because he's going to share a little bit about City Ser but he's going to launch a prophetic word over us and I want you to be ready to
(36:46) Steve are you guys ready will you welcome Carl as he comes and closes us out well let me continue here quickly on a couple of statements obviously what the Lord is doing here in the church is incredible We Believe for Supernatural Harvest as we're living today and I love it we know we need Revival in America and and and and we do need it in Sacramento we need it in our state and if God's good people that have a heart for that leaves the state how are we going to see it in fact we need our churches to catch the vision and the
(37:23) fire and say let's contend let's contend for our city contend for Harvest we know from scripture prophetically in fact we know that God's word is not changed he is absolutely uh clear that he wants all men to come to knowledge of of of him he wants all men to be saved you know the idea that somehow he doesn't want to see Harvest is a myth or a deception from the pit of Hell Jesus want to see harvest in California on Sacramento even though it might be difficult and we fight for things when we align oursel with God's
(37:56) goodness Harvest comes I want to speak about a couple of stories but it is interesting and I was singing here early in the service you know sometimes we come into this idea and City serve as part of that story we've been fighting and working gospel work you might wonder even why I have an accident I'm born in swed um I spend most of my time in Africa so I'm confused in my Lang accent a little bit but but that's all right but I've been working in a lot of places people say you cannot see Harvest
(38:23) Somalia you have very few Believers uh part of Ethiopia the Horn of Africa we did lots of work in every city we come to people always say well you can't see Harvest here it's just difficult it's difficult everywhere but Jesus when to see Harvest of God's people you can come in alignment with his goodness that's where Supernatural Harvest is to released over our lives and there's a story in God's word and I want to speak about because you're making room for his Supernatural and I'm speaking this over your church
(38:52) real life church but also you as an individual here God want to make room in our lives for Supernatural Harvest he want to see Supernatural Harvest and favor released over our lives but many times it's about first becoming in alignment with what he wants to do he needs us to not know what to do not say I can do this and that you say here I am I'm making room for you use me stepping into that alignment God's people it speaks about his story that was very interesting it's incredible parallel truth I lived much
(39:26) part of my life it's a story test testimony even of God's Supernatural work over City serve but as we were beginning the idea was that God's people if you step in to do the right thing he will bless it but the people of God was having kind of a similar story The Prophet Hagi comes upon the scene with a prophetic word on God's people the background story is that God's people is fighting uh they're in captivity in Babylon they're slaves they're being brutalized but miraculous being released
(39:54) but God is saying I have an assignment for you everyone's saying assignment assignment the idea that where you're saved to life also is a myth you're saved not just to life but also to purpose God has a purpose on your life he has an assignment over your life and you walk that out that is connected to God's Supernatural favor over our lives it's not that we have work to do for him to be happy but it's part of we are saved to purpose so God's people was given this assignment it was to go back
(40:24) and build the house of the Lord in in Jerusalem it was ruins the house of the Lord was the temple was destroyed and it's this incredible Great Commission picture that the assignment obviously is not a brick and mortar but Jesus assignment for us is of Living Stones every tribe language people and nation and Jesus said I will be the sheath Cornerstone that's our assignment we gave the church was given 2,000 years ago that all men would be saved hear the gospel that we are to live out our faith love God with all our heart mind soul
(40:56) and our neighbors ourselves be Christ Image Bears to the world that he planted you in right we love God and we love people not that we know what we do every picture you have on the wall speaks about Jesus living with people and being a friend to Sinners to people and he invited you and me to do the same the assignment given to God's people was to go and build this house but they get busy like we do and this is true across the world but especially sometimes I look at our country as blessed as we are and it's it's interesting the story
(41:28) speaks about a couple of things because they're busy these people it says in God's word when the prophet comes he says man you've been busy you planted much but you harvest little you labored but somehow it didn't become blessed you eat but you're not satisfied this is people that were busy they were hardworking they believ for Harvest if you want to see Harvest you plant right but if you want to see big Harvest you plant much this people planted much but saw nothing and then God kind of starts speaking and says
(42:01) what you brought home I blew it away why because of my assignment you're busy with your own house while my assignment is not finished and it's this kind of rebuke on God's people realigning thems or kind of just becoming bless I know that this is a terrible English word but it's a sweet I can kind of say it so bless being bless what does it mean to kind of line ourself with what God is saying and because I do that God will bless us so the people of God they listen to the prophet and we quoted
(42:34) in Hagi chapter 2 all the time it says the Lord open a window of Heaven over the people he says the silver and the gold is mine and I will bless you and God's favor returned as they realigned becoming blessful sometimes iside making room for him again as we get busy in our lives you're saying you know what I'm going to just make myself a available for him again and see what God is doing maybe he has something for me this is the word of the Lord that God's word was for City serve and we set out from Isaiah 58: 10 through 12 I'm
(43:11) just paraphrasing because of time but this is the word of the Lord it says if you spend yourself on behalf of the broken then if you spend yourself on behalf of the hungry satisfied in need of the oppressed then then your light will shine in darkness then you will become like a wellwater garden in the desert then you will be blessed in fact then you will be known as Rebuilders of cities when did God's people be known as we are rebuilding the broken cities When We complain on homelessness and drug addiction and prison reentry and
(43:47) Brokenness I'm telling God's people is the answer for a broken world if we just lean into it and Jesus will bless us he will open a window over our church in ways we cannot even imagine in City Ser we got to kind of see this this testimony was incred I I can spend the whole afternoon so I'm not going to do this but what we did get to see is from coming out of nothing we were feeding during covid when everyone shut down churches and people said you can't win people to Jesus we end up delivering about 600 million pounds
(44:22) of food Across America in every city and every County praying for over 40 million people only Jesus could do this by saying if we are here let us just make oursel available what maybe could Jesus do then so here today this morning I know the pastor Dean the vision you have creating room for him longing for Revival the way we structured it and the way even we talked about heroes is that we believe that God's church and key for Revival is not just as great as the leadership team you have here an anointed Pastor deanis is that you also
(45:01) become a hero in God's Kingdom in fact the more than God's people start serving across this city but across in this church that's how we start seeing Revival released in our in our churches so we structure this idea of our goods and kind it's not about stuff even the warehouse we talked about but it's about relationship and US loving God but also loving people so what we say is be hero just love somebody love a neighbor do an act of kindness and see what God will do just create room for him to do something
(45:31) in the world that God planted you so son speaking to us here today this morning about creating room maybe being a hero I want us to stand to our feet just in the next couple minutes if I have just an opportunity I believe the Holy Spirit maybe reminded you of an assignment or person maybe just has speaking even here today that name or that person is being highlighted in your spirit that's somebody that can do something that we just got busy in fact you might have an assignment feel like Jesus has a plan for your life and you ask yourself why
(46:11) am I not seeing that super natural favor and harvest I'm challenging you today that sometimes we just got to recalibrate realign ourselves saying you know what here I am let me make room maybe I become busy with my own house and my own life I'm just going to pause I don't I'm not saying I'm going to commit to ABC I'm just saying here I am use me again I want to be that person I want to be that Hero whatever you can call on and say use me I'm here and you will see God's Supernatural
(46:46) favor window Heaven open up over your home your family the assignment I believe he already has over your church because you already are making serious steps towards just being a church and community in fact I believe not just for your congregation I think real life is going to start touching other churches to do the same in this city but it begins with you here and so if you're here and not speaking to you today and you feel like you know what maybe I gotten busy I need to step back and say here I am I want you to lift
(47:18) your hands across this Auditorium and say you know what here I am I'm just going to make myself available I don't know what it is it's not that I'm going to do a bunch of things I'm just saying maybe I have a neighbor somebody I want to love use me thank you Hands Across this Auditorium I want you to lift them High by faith and say you know use me thank you Jesus thank you Jesus for all the hands thank you Lord for all the lives hallelujah thank you I know we're running short on time
(47:49) but is it all right Pastor Dean if you would do can I ask you to do something really bold I know we do it quickly but you make make a statement you lifted your hands you say you know what I'm going to step up front and just declare to Heaven and Earth I'm making room for you I want to be that one I'm not sure what I'm saying I'm just saying I'm going to give more time to be available for you because I want God's favor blessing over me I want you to step out in the aisle you lifted your hands you
(48:17) step up front here and we just going to pray for just a moment you say here I am come quickly as you come thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Lord Jesus I thank you Jesus hallelujah amen there was something Supernatural that happened when they said yes here we are we repent we make room for you obviously what he's declaring when he says the silver and the gold is mine is that the money is not the issue the resource is not an issue a building is not an issue God had got it when we step in a with his vision
(48:58) there is nothing he will not do I I pray Jesus over my friends this morning everyone that is declaring to Heaven and Earth here here I am I want to make more room to you for you I'm here I want to make you the priority I know I got busy with some things but I am here I pray for Supernatural favor I pray Jesus that you open and window Heaven over them for just blessing favor provision God godliness I pray for Harvest through their life the neighbors the names the names may be highlighted in their Spirit even right now I pray that they will
(49:35) come to Faith Hallelujah by your their obedience this morning I thank you that you Ed them in ways they cannot even imagine I'm praying for favor and blessing this morning over them in Jesus name hey I just want to take a moment again and say thank you for joining us real life Church's mission is to engage real life Embrace real people and encoun the real God and we want you to know that you are a part of that mission we also want to make sure you know the best way to keep in the know about all things
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